Which course of action most improves the following sentence?
"After a difficult season, the women's soccer team won their first victory last night."
A)Use a semicolon in place of the comma.
B)Change their to its.
C)Change difficult to hard.
D)Fix the misplaced modifier.

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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.

Which Course of Action Most Improves the Following Sentence