Remember:
| Pronouns must agree with their antecedents (words to which the pronouns refer) in terms of number (singular with singular; plural with plural), gender (masculine, feminine and neuter), and person (first, second, or third). |
| Pronoun | The pronoun's antecedent |
| 1. their | men |
| 2. his or her | criminal |
| 3. their | criminals |
| 4. its | organization |
| 5. it | machine |
| 6. it | machine |
| 7. their | criminals |
| 8. he or she | no one |
| 9. it | ATM |
| 10. their | people* |
| *The book erroneously uses the possessive "people's" as the antecedent, but antecedents should be nouns or pronouns, not adjectives or possessive pronouns as is the word "people's." |
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