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[1] Our house was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. [2] It was common for an enslaved person to stop there on their way to the North. [3] The Underground Railroad were a network of hiding places. [4] The cellar beneath our house has a secret door that was installed to trick slave catchers.

Which sentence has a pronoun-antecedent agreement error?
sentence 1
sentence 2
sentence 3
sentence 4

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Answer:

The answer to the second sentence revision is "their" then answer to the third sentence revision is "was"

Step-by-step explanation:

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[1] Our house was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. [2] It was common for an-example-1
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Answer:

[2] It was common for an enslaved person to stop there on their way to the North.

Step-by-step explanation:

Pronoun-antecedent agreement refers to the correspondence in number between the pronoun (which stands for a noun) and the antecedent (which is the word the pronoun stands for). As a result, a singular pronoun must agree with a singular antecedent, and a plural pronoun must agree with a plural antecedent.

In the example sentence, the pronoun their does not agree in number with the antecedent an enslaved person. The revised versions are the following:

It was common for an enslaved person to stop there on his or her way to the North.

Or:

It was common for enslaved people to stop there on their way to the North.

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