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Read the sentence. The team raises most of their money at the bake sale. The error in this sentence is a pronoun-antecedent voice agreement error. pronoun-antecedent number agreement error. pronoun-antecedent gender agreement error. pronoun-antecedent subject agreement error.

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pronoun-antecedent number agreement error.


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User Dmitry Yudin
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The answer to your question would be that the error in this sentence is a pronoun-antecedent number agreement error. The pronoun "their" refers back to the NP "the team". However, the NP subject is singular.

The sentence in question is an example of the use of singular they. Singular they is the use of the pronoun they or any of its derivative forms (them, their, theirs, and themselves) as a gender-neutral singular pronoun.

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