Which sentence from a student's reflective essay contains a pronoun and antecedent error and needs to be edited?
A. The jury was unanimous in its decision at the end of the documentary.
B. Anyone trying to exercise daily should carefully consider his or her routines.
C. A person who cares about the environment will recycle their aluminum cans.
D. The members of the committee agreed on their assessment of the situation.

Explanation:

The sentence in the choice C, "A person who cares about the environment will recycle their aluminum can", contains a pronoun and antecedent error and needs to be edited.

Pronouns replace nouns. Some pronouns are it, its, his, him, her, them and their.

Antecedents are the noun that is replaced by the noun.

Pronouns and antecedents must agree in gender and number. This means that when the antecedent is feminine the pronoun must be feminine too, when the antecedent is masculine the pronoun must also be masculine; and the pronoun must be singular or plural depending of the antecedent.

In the sentence A person who cares about the environment will recycle their aluminum can. The antecedent is a person, which is singular, but the pronoun is their which is plural.

Hence, the pronoun and the antecedent do not agree. This is an error and the sentence should be edited.

To amend the error either the antecedent or the pronoun should be changed. The two possible ways to amend the error are:

1. Change the antecedent:

People who care about the environment will recycle their aluminum can.

2. Change the pronoun:

A person who cares about the environment will recycle its aluminum can.

to show how the cables work.

the illustration   that would give a reader a clear understanding of the text is a picture of men constructing the frame of a building.the frame is made of iron bars. the text describes the job of blacksmiths'. these were very organised and they had different names: "the driver" and "the heater". the text describes the way in which these men worked ; they worked iron pieces as if they were playing a sport. in fact, the text wants to show the men's skills. the text also puts some emphasis on the use of '' rivets'' in construction. this kind of nails were not always used in the construction of manhattan.

some examples:

"and with an underhand toss he hurled the smoking rivet straight at the catcher, who caught it in mid-air in his catching can." men's skills

"when the driver was ready for a new " the emphasis on the rivet ( special nail used in construction).

" it against a beam to remove any cinders, and jammed it into the waiting hole. " the emphasis on the rivet.