Multiple choice

Which of the following is the best revision of the underlined portion of sentence no. (2) below? and a student helped to recognize his difficulties and overcome it.

  1. and students helped to recognize their difficulties and overcome it.

  2. and the students helped to recognize their difficulties and overcome it.

  3. and a student helped to recognize his many a difficulty and overcome it.

  4. and a student helped to recognize his difficulties and overcome them.

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D Correct answer
Explanation

(D). The noun of the objective case is plural 'difficulties'. The related pronoun should also be plural 'them'.