Pronoun Answer 20

20. The instructor has asked everyone to bring their own tools to carpentry class.

Rewrite:

20. The instructor has asked everyone to bring his/her own tools to carpentry class.

Why?

Everyone seems like it should be a collective and therfore plural; however, it is defined as a singular indefinite pronoun. As a consequence, one must "his/her" (or one or the other) to refer back to "everyone".