Given below are four sentences. Choose the one which is grammatically correct:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → The workshop trainees put their tools back in the rack before going home.
Possessive determiners:
- A possessive determiner comes before a noun and must agree with the owner it refers to.
- “Trainees” is plural, so “their tools” is correct.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: The boys in the hockey team washed his own jerseys after the match. — Incorrect. The owners are “the boys”, which is plural. So the determiner must be “their”, not “his”.
Corrected: The boys in the hockey team washed their own jerseys after the match.
Option 3: Meera showed hers ticket to the guard at the museum gate. — Incorrect. “Hers” is a pronoun and stands alone. Before a noun we use “her”.
Corrected: Meera showed her ticket to the guard at the museum gate.
Option 4: One should count your change before leaving the bank counter. — Incorrect. The subject is “one”, so the matching determiner is “one’s”, not “your”.
Corrected: One should count one’s change before leaving the bank counter.