The young fish [were] very tiny, yet each of [them ate] man times [its] own [weight in] solid food every day.
The answer is no error but someone told me that the FISH indicates plural. Then why is [its] correct? isn’t it supposed to be their?
Thanks in advance
After the comma the sentence says “each of them.” This makes the sentence go from a plural subject to a singular subject. In order to correctly talk about the “each” portion you would have to use “its.”
@Frozenslush - “Each” is always singular. Always.
I know that, but should everything be singular which comes after EACH? because at the beginning it stated that the word FISH is used as plural so they used WERE instead of WAS. But can it be ITS instead of THEIR even tho the subject, the fish, is used as plural?
After the conjunction “yet,” a new clause begins, and its subject is “each.” That’s where you should look first.
Each makes the sentence start talking about the fish as individuals making it become singular from that point on.