Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2), (3) and (4). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct and mark it as your answer.

Neither the President (1) nor the members of the committee expressed (2) his views on the (3) issue (4) being discussed.

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)
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B Correct answer
Explanation

(their). When two or more antecedents are joined by ‘or, or nor’, the pronoun should agree with the nearer antecedent. In this sentence the nearer antecedent 'members of the committee' is plural, so a plural pronoun should be used. Hence, option 2 is correct.

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