Grammar Test C Answer 20


20. Everyone who has been called a "dobie" (in the language of the cowboy, a calf that has lost its mammy and whose daddy has run off with another cow) has wished for their father's blessings.

Ans: Everyone who has been called a "dobie" (in the language of the cowboy, a calf that has lost its mammy and whose daddy has run off with another cow) has wished for his/her father's blessings.


Everyone is a singular indefinite pronound. Therefore, any pronoun relating back to it needs to be be singular as well, not plural.