Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence has a part underlined. The part may have error of grammar and/or syntax. Identify the error and select the option that rectifies the error.

Most of us can only imagine the sense of grief and desolation that a homeowner must feel upon finding their house and all its contents destroyed by flood or other natural disaster.

  1. upon finding their house and all its contents

  2. to find his house and all its contents

  3. finding their house and all it contains

  4. when he finds that his house and its contents is

  5. in finding their house, with all its contents,
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B Correct answer
Explanation

 The noun 'homeowner' should be followed by a related pronoun and not a plural pronoun 'their'. This is changed as 'his' in option (B); hence, (B) is the correct answer.

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