What does the word “their” refer to?

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In my opinion, it’s “A. teenager”
I was wrong, it’s “C. friends” because of “friends - their parents

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‘their’ refers to the friends. ‘their parents’ being a 3rd person possessive of the (friends as a collective, but their individual parents).

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EDIT: It’s a little confusing, but it refers to the ‘friends’.

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I guess the question has already been answered, but… am I the only one who finds the phrasing here extremely awkward, even borderline ungrammatical? “A teenager who has friends that do things …” is not even a complete sentence.

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their is a pronoun, specifically a possessive adjective. It is taking the place of friends (parents’ friends).

I agree that the question/answer could be a bit confusing, and I usually often find the way they phrase these questionnaires confusing. :upside_down_face:

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