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The following sentence contains an error in pronoun agreement. Discuss four ways you might correct the pronoun agreement, while ensuring that the sentence remains gender-fair.

Someone has left their tennis shoes in the middle of the floor.

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This sentence is incorrect because "Someone" is singular and "their" is plural. Therefore, we need to either change the subject and make it plural or change the pronoun and make it singuar. One way to correct this is to change "Someone" to "The student" and to change "their" to ...

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