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Identify the sentence that contains a grammatical error regarding subject-verb concord, pronoun reference, or prepositional usage:
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Detailed Explanation
Option (b) contains a subject-verb agreement error. The subject of the sentence is the plural noun 'criteria' (singular: 'criterion'), which therefore must govern the plural verb 'require' instead of the singular form 'requires'. In option (a), 'Neither of' correctly takes a singular verb ('was'). In option (c), the use of 'their' as a gender-neutral singular pronoun following 'Each' is widely accepted in modern usage, though traditional prescriptive grammar prefers 'his or her'. In option (d), the negative adverb 'Hardly' at the beginning of the clause correctly triggers subject-auxiliary inversion ('had the... stepped') followed by 'when'. For further reading on subject-verb rules, refer to Agreement (linguistics).
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