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Zorluk: ZorPronouns and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Read the sentence below carefully. Supply the possessive pronoun that correctly completes the sentence by maintaining strict grammatical pronoun-antecedent agreement in standard formal English.

Cevap:The Apex Development Bank is the only one of the regional financial institutions that failed to revise 【its】 internal auditing standards after the regulatory overhaul.

Cevap

its
The correct pronoun is 'its' because the structural frame 'the only one of...' restricts the antecedent of 'that' to the singular entity ('the Apex Development Bank'). A singular neuter antecedent requires the singular possessive pronoun 'its'.

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1
Identify the true antecedent of the relative pronoun 'that'.
In the construction 'the only one of [plural noun] that...', the phrase 'the only one' restricts the antecedent of the relative pronoun 'that' to the singular noun phrase ('the Apex Development Bank / the only one'), rather than the plural object of the preposition ('institutions').
The modifier 'the only one' specifies a singular subject as the antecedent controlling the relative clause.
2
Determine the correct possessive pronoun agreement.
Because the antecedent is singular and neuter (an institution/bank), it requires the singular possessive pronoun 'its'.
A pronoun must agree in both number (singular) and gender (neuter) with its antecedent.

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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement with 'The Only One Of' Structures
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