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In advanced English syntax and morphology, analyze the following complex sentence containing potential anomalies in correlative comparison, collective noun agreement, and quantifier distribution:"Scarcely had the board of directors finalized the fiscal budget when several regional vice-presidents argued that neither the proposed expenditures nor the projected revenue were reflective of its true institutional capacity."Identify whether the underlined segments or any other part of the sentence contain a grammatical error requiring correction according to standard English syntax.
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Detailed Explanation
The sentence contains a double error involving pronoun antecedent agreement and proximity-based concord. First, the possessive pronoun 'its' attempts to refer back to the plural antecedents 'proposed expenditures' and 'projected revenue' (or the vice-presidents), requiring the plural determiner 'their'. Second, under the Wikipedia Reference rules of subject-verb agreement with correlative conjunctions ('neither... nor'), the verb must agree with the noun closest to it ('revenue', which is singular, taking 'was'). Therefore, both the verb 'were' (if intended to be governed by the nearest noun, though here it clashes with 'its') or the pronoun 'its' present agreement failures. Option C correctly highlights the agreement and referential mismatch.
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