Sentence Correction

pnk wrote:

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neha.patni wrote: I was asked by PM to help with this question.

Another error: In A and C the phrase their home suggests that all the indigenous people were living in one single home. The other answers solve this issue by omitting the pronoun their: many indigenous people...left home.

Hope this helps!

Hi Mitch,

'their' clearly refers to 'many' - could you elaborate 'how their homes means they are living in one single home'

thanks

Notice that you wrote their homes (plural pronoun + plural noun), but answer choices A and C say their home (plural pronoun + singular noun).

Be careful when you see a plural pronoun modifying a singular noun. Make sure that the noun being replaced by the plural pronoun (in this case, the people) share the singular noun (in this case, the one home).

The problem with A and C is that the many indigenous people (plural) did not leave just one home (singular). (That would be a lot of people living in just one house!)

Does this help?