FTCE English 6-12 Practice Questions - FTCE English 6-12 (013) Subject Area Examination Exam

In the sentence "The committee submitted its report," why is the pronoun "its" correct rather than "their"?

"Committee" is a collective noun treated as a single unit here, requiring a singular pronoun "Committee" is always plural and requires a plural pronoun "Its" is an informal substitute for "their" in any sentence Collective nouns can never take pronouns

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"Committee" is a collective noun treated as a single unit here, requiring a singular pronoun

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