When it comes to Yahoo! Shine, each writer has her own distinct style. And it usually involves one or more grammatical transgressions, like this:
That pronoun refers to city (city is the pronoun’s antecedent). It’s a singular noun that takes a singular pronoun; in this case, its, not their.
But of course that’s not the only goof in the article. There’s this one, too:
A homophonic horror, paired with the grammatical gaffe, is the hallmark of this writer.
September 25, 2013 at 9:02 am
This is taking pronoun confusion to a new level.
September 25, 2013 at 8:13 pm
I think this is all a result of using “their” to refer to one person when the gender is unknown. It’s just exploded to include using the pronoun to refer to anything — human, nonhuman, one, ten, whatever.
September 25, 2013 at 8:26 pm
I did a post on that subject recently.