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What is the pronoun and antecedent agreement errors in the sentence should everybody bring their coins to the first coin collector's meeting?
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The 'error' is the plural possessive adjective 'their' takes the place of the singular indefinite pronoun 'everybody'.
Normally, a pronoun must agree with its antecedent in number (singular or plural). However, in English there is no singular gender neutral third person pronoun and it is acceptable to use the gender neutral plural pronouns they, them, theirs, their, themselves when the gender of the antecedent is unknown or may be a mixed group of male and female.
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