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There is an error in the underlined portion of the passage below. Choose the option that best corrects this error.

Many toddlers suffer from separation anxiety when it reaches two years old.

when it reach
when they reach
when he reaches
when it reached
when I reached

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Answer: B - Many toddlers suffer from separation anxiety when they reach two years old. The original sentence shows the pronoun in the wrong case. Given that “toddlers” is the pronoun antecedent, “it” references objects not people. This means that the pronoun does not match its antecedent.

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