select the antecedent of the pronoun in the following sentence:The students will take their final exams before the classrooms are renovated. a.student b.their c.exams d.classrooms

To whom does "their" refer?

students

To determine the antecedent of a pronoun, you need to identify the noun or noun phrase that the pronoun is referring to. In this sentence, the pronoun "their" is referring to a plural noun. Let's analyze the sentence:

"The students will take their final exams before the classrooms are renovated."

Here, the antecedent of the pronoun "their" is the plural noun "students." This is because the pronoun "their" is indicating that the final exams belong to the students.

So, the antecedent of the pronoun "their" in this sentence is "students" (option a).