Which one has the correct pronoun?
The team of reporters stunned their audience when the results of the election were revealed.
The team of reporters stunned its audience when the results of the election were revealed.
What is the subject of each of these sentences? Is the subject singular or plural?
Hint: Subjects are never in prepositional phrases.
The team of reporters stunned their audience when the results of the election were revealed.
The team of reporters stunned its audience when the results of the election were revealed.
The team of reporters stunned their audience when the results of the election were revealed.
The team of reporters stunned its audience when the results of the election were revealed.
The correct pronoun to use in this sentence is "its."
To determine this, we need to consider the subject of the sentence, which is "the team of reporters." In this case, "team" is a collective noun, referring to a group of individuals working together. When a collective noun is seen as a single unit, we use the pronoun "it" to refer to the collective noun as a whole.
Therefore, "The team of reporters stunned its audience when the results of the election were revealed" is the correct sentence.