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OpenStudy (royalkiwi):

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.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Well the subject here is a collective noun. When you use a collective noun as a subject, you should use a singular pronoun. Instead of "their" , it should use "its" to refer to subject "team".

OpenStudy (royalkiwi):

Ah I see, so it would be D then?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yep, that's what I think :)

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