Identify the part of the sentence that contains a grammatical error. The committee / has submitted their report / to the board / for review.
has submitted their report
This is an error-spotting task, so we test each segment against the rules of subject-verb and pronoun agreement.
The subject of the sentence is 'The committee', which is a collective noun. When a group is viewed as a single, unified body acting together, it is treated as grammatically singular.
The second segment reads 'has submitted their report'. The auxiliary 'has' is singular and correctly agrees with the singular collective noun.
The problem is the pronoun 'their', which is plural. It clashes with the singular verb 'has' and with the singular subject 'The committee' that it refers back to.
To be consistent, the pronoun should be singular: 'has submitted its report'. This keeps both the verb and the pronoun in agreement with the single collective subject.
The remaining parts, 'to the board' and 'for review.', are prepositional phrases that carry no agreement error.
The key rule is that a collective noun treated as one unit must take a singular verb and a singular pronoun throughout the sentence.
Hence the segment containing the error is has submitted their report.
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Each question in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response. If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).
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\({\rm{\;}}\frac{{{\rm{I\;am\;entirely\;agreeing\;with\;you}},{\rm{\;}}}}{{\left( {\rm{a}} \right)}}\;\frac{{{\rm{but\;I\;regret}}}}{{\left( {\rm{b}} \right)}}\;\frac{{{\rm{I\;can't\;help\;you}}.}}{{\left( {\rm{c}} \right)}}\;\frac{{{\rm{No\;error}}.}}{{\left( {\rm{d}} \right)}}\)
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