Multiple choice

Directions: Part of the sentence is underlined. Select the option that best corrects the underlined part.

Designers of athletic footwear finely tune each category of shoes to their particular activity by studying human motion and physiology.

  1. finely tune each category of shoes to their particular activity

  2. fine tune each category of shoes to its particular activity

  3. fine tune each category of shoes to their particular activity

  4. finely tune each category of shoes to its particular activity

  5. finely tune all categories of shoe to their particular activity
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Each should be followed by a singular pronoun. So, 'their' is incorrectly used and should be changed to 'its', which is duly rectified in (4).

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