- [Instructor] A crate of
honeybees arrived at my house by accident, so I took them
immediately to animal control. All right, so what is this pronoun them trying to refer to? 'Cause it might be tempting
to say that it's referring to the honeybees, but the
subject of this first part, this first clause of this
sentence right over here, they didn't say honeybees
arrived at my house. They say a crate of honeybees. So the subject here is actually
singular, it's a crate, a crate, this right over here is singular. So when we use the pronoun, we
also want the singular form. And you could try it out by
replacing it with the word that it's referring to. A crate of honeybees arrived
at my house by accident, so I took the crate
immediately to animal control. So instead of the crate,
I wouldn't say them, I would say it. I would replace the plural
pronoun with the singular, with the singular pronoun. So I took it immediately
to animal control. And this is a very, this is
one that'll trip many people up many times because you
see a singular thing that contains many things,
and so you might say, okay, well, I'm talking
about a lot of honeybees, so I'd wanna use plural. Well, that would be the case
if we just said honeybees arrived at my house by
accident, so I took them immediately to animal control. That would actually be okay, but we're not talking
about honeybees arriving. We're talking about a crate, one crate of honeybees arriving. And so the pronoun here is
referring to that one crate so it should be it.