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Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

After a difficult season, the women’s soccer team won their first victory last night.
  1. Use a semicolon in place of the comma.
  2. Change their to its.
  3. Change difficult to hard.
  4. Fix the misplaced modifier.
Explanation
Answer: B - The sentence is most improved by changing their to its. The win belongs to the team, a singular entity. Note that this is only true of American English. In British English, it is common to treat collective nouns as plural.
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