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Rule "Possible agreement error: Each of them likes their (his/her)"

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Description: Possible agreement error: Each of them likes their (his/her)
By default, this rule is not active in LanguageTool
Message: '\2' is singular and thus takes a singular pronoun.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/pronoun.html
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • Each of the boys likes their new teacher.
    Correction suggestion: his, her, his or her, its
  • Each of the students remembered their homework.
    Correction suggestion: his, her, his or her, its
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: AGREEMENT_THEIR_HIS [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-24 22:33:07 +0200)