Question

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
When Mary said to the dog, ‘Stop wagging your tail’, _______ tail started wagging faster.
A. Your
B. Hers
C. Its
D. Their

Answer 1

Hint: A pronoun is a term that can be written instead of a noun. He, she, everybody, herself, you, it, me, itself, that, themselves, they, each, few, who, I, whoever, whose, many, someone etc are some examples of pronouns.

Complete answer:
- Some types of pronouns are related to each other closely, and, depending on how they are used, certain words may act as many different types of pronouns. The various pronouns are personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, reflexive pronouns, reciprocal pronouns, relative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, demonstrative pronoun and indefinite pronoun.
- Pronouns are noun substitutes. Based on two items, a different pronoun is required: the noun being substituted and the role that the noun has in the sentence. In English, pronouns only take the gender of the noun that they substitute in the singular form of the 3rd person. With the exception of the reflexive pronoun, the plural form of the 2nd person pronouns are similar to the singular forms of the 2nd person pronouns.
- Subject pronouns replace nouns that are the subject of their clause. In order to replace nouns that are the direct or indirect object of a clause, the use of object pronoun is seen. Possessive pronouns replace possessive nouns as either the subject or the object of the clause. Reflexive and intensive pronouns are the same set of words but they have different functions in a sentence.
- We sometimes use a pronoun of the neuter gender when referring to pets, which is "it." The possessive form of which is “its”. Option C, therefore, is right. The majority of the choices do not comply with this provision and are thus incorrect.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘C'.

Note: There shouldn’t be confusion while answering this question. But even if you get confused, then you should keep in mind that here the sentence is about a dog and dog is gender neutral.