Subject-verb & pronoun-antecedent agreement.
Do not make changes to nouns or indefinite pronouns to achieve agreement. Do not change the tense of the verbs.

"All these young people follow the rules he or she has learned about."

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Subject-verb & pronoun-antecedent agreement.
Do not make changes to nouns or indefinite pronouns to achieve agreement. Do not change the tense of the verbs.

"All these young people follow the rules he or she has learned about."

anonymous · Answer

I would want to change "has" to "have" but we're not allowed to change the tense of the verbs, so I'm a little confused.

tkhunny · Answer

Is "all" an indefinite pronoun?

anonymous · Answer

yes it is

anonymous · Answer

or would "he or she" be?

tkhunny · Answer

How about "he" or "she"?  Maybe they're definite pronouns and we can change them?

anonymous · Answer

"All these young people follow the rules 'they' has learned about" I dont think that makes sense, I'm not allowed to change "has" to "have"

anonymous · Answer

or should I just get rid of the "has"

tkhunny · Answer

If we can't change "all", "he", or "she", we can't fix this one.

If we can change "All" to "Each of" and change "follow" to "follows", we might be done.

anonymous · Answer

would "All these young people follow the rules he or she learned about." make sense? @tkhunny

anonymous · Answer

to me it does make sense....

anonymous · Answer

All these young people follow the rules he or she learned about

^ that?

anonymous · Answer

I guess it makes the most sense, but idk it seems odd

anonymous · Answer

yep, that

anonymous · Answer

so, cya

anonymous · Answer

thank you!

anonymous · Answer

your welcome

tkhunny · Answer

"all these" vs. "he or she" is no good.
"each of these" vs. "he or she" is good.