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Zorluk: Çok zorPronouns and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Select the option that correctly completes the sentence below.

Neither the senior delegates nor the committee chairman was willing to compromise on ________ stance during the plenary session.

Which of the following pronouns grammatically completes the sentence?

  1. hisCevap
  2. B
    their
  3. C
    its
  4. D
    themselves

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The correct pronoun is 'his' because in a correlative conjunction construction using 'neither...nor', the pronoun must agree in person, number, and gender with the nearer antecedent ('the committee chairman').
The sentence uses the correlative conjunction 'neither...nor'. According to standard grammatical rules, when subject elements of different numbers or genders are linked by 'neither...nor', the pronoun must agree with the antecedent closest to it. Here, 'the committee chairman' is singular and masculine, so the singular possessive pronoun 'his' is grammatically correct.

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1
Identify the grammatical structure of the subject.
The subject consists of compound antecedents joined by the correlative conjunction 'neither...nor': 'the senior delegates' (plural) and 'the committee chairman' (singular).
Correlative conjunctions dictate specific proximity agreement rules for pronouns and verbs.
2
Apply the rule of proximity for pronoun-antecedent agreement.
The pronoun slot is positioned after the second antecedent, 'the committee chairman'.
When a singular and a plural noun are connected by 'neither...nor', the pronoun agrees with the closer noun.
3
Determine the required number and gender of the pronoun.
The closer antecedent 'the committee chairman' is singular and masculine/third-person, requiring the singular possessive pronoun 'his'.
Using 'their' creates a number disagreement error with the singular noun closest to the pronoun.

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