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"The team raises most of their money at the bake sale."

The error in this sentence is a __________ .

A) pronoun-antecedent voice agreement error.
B) pronoun-antecedent number agreement error.
C) pronoun-antecedent gender agreement error.
D) pronoun-antecedent subject agreement error.

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I just took the test its B :)

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The correct answer of this question is option D. The error in this sentence is a pronoun-antecedent subject agreement error. In this sentence, the pronoun used for team is "their". Since team is a singular collective noun, the correct pronoun must be used which is "its".
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