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سوال گرامری تستی زبان انگلیسی درباره pronoun agreement

identify the sentence with incorrect pronoun usage

A) Everyone brought their own lunch, which saved time
B) Neither of the options seem appealing to me
C) The dog wagged its tail excitedly when it saw its owner
D) She baked us a delicious cake, even though we hadn't asked

Sentence A does have a pronoun agreement issue While "everyone" is singular, the pronoun "their" is plural The correct sentence would be:

Everyone brought their own lunch, which saved time (change "their" to "his/her")

This is a common mistake because "everyone" can feel plural due to its meaning, but grammatically it's singular

Here's why the other options are correct:

B) Neither of the options seem appealing to me "Neither" is singular, and "options" is plural, but "seem" agrees with the closer noun "options" (proximity agreement)
C) The dog wagged its tail excitedly when it saw its owner "Dog" is singular, and both "its" pronouns agree with the singular antecedent
D) She baked us a delicious cake, even though we hadn't asked "She" is singular, and "us" is the correct plural pronoun for the group referred to by "we"