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Difficulty: MediumPronoun Case and Person

Consider the following sentence from an academic essay about a collaborative engineering project:

"Between the senior engineers and she, their collaborative efforts successfully resolved the critical software glitch before the rocket's launch."

Which choice best completes the sentence, maintaining correct pronoun case and person?

  1. A
    NO CHANGE
  2. her, theirAnswer
  3. C
    she, they're
  4. D
    her, they're

Answer

The correct answer is the option that replaces the underlined text with 'her, their' because the objective pronoun is required after the preposition, and the possessive adjective is needed to modify the noun phrase.
The correct option correctly uses 'her' as the object of the preposition 'Between' and 'their' as the possessive adjective modifying 'collaborative efforts'. In English grammar, pronouns that follow prepositions must be in the objective case. Since 'Between' is a preposition, it requires the objective pronoun 'her' instead of the subjective pronoun 'she'. Additionally, the possessive adjective 'their' is required to show ownership of the 'collaborative efforts'; using the contraction 'they're' (meaning 'they are') would be grammatically incorrect.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the grammatical role of the pronoun in the compound construction 'the senior engineers and she'.
The pronoun is part of a compound object following the preposition 'Between'.
Prepositions require pronouns in the objective case (such as 'me', 'him', 'her', 'them', 'us') rather than the subjective case ('I', 'he', 'she', 'they', 'we'). Therefore, 'she' must be changed to 'her'.
2
Determine the correct word to modify 'collaborative efforts' in the second clause.
The sentence requires a possessive adjective to show ownership of the 'collaborative efforts'.
The possessive adjective 'their' correctly indicates that the efforts belong to the engineers and the designer. The contraction 'they're' (meaning 'they are') is incorrect because it would create an ungrammatical phrase ('they are collaborative efforts successfully resolved...').

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