Discussion
Which of the following sentences uses the correct person and number agreement ?
Answer: B
The correct sentence is Each of the boys has submitted his homework.
Each is singular even when followed by 'of' and a plural noun, because it picks out the boys one at a time. It therefore takes the singular verb has and, in traditional grammar, a singular pronoun, his.
Options with have treat each as plural, which is the classic error. 'Each of the boys has submitted their homework' gets the verb right, but traditional grammar requires the pronoun to agree in number with each too, so it is not the fully correct form.
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