Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). 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.

Every teacher and every student (A) have their (B) own views (C) about deteriorating relationship (D) between teachers and students. (E) No error

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)
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A Correct answer
Explanation

 Change ‘have their’ to ‘has his’. When two singular nouns are joined by ‘and’ and are preceded by ‘each’ or ‘every’, the verb or pronoun must be in singular. 

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