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[IllMil]

"He learned that although each tree is unique, they are connected with one root system."

I'm having a brain fart. My gut's telling me this is incorrect, with the each-they agreement. Am I right?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Here's a stab at it:

He learned that although each tree is unique, it shares a single root system with all the other trees.

 

[dixiehack]

I'm assuming that we are talking about a defined set of trees and not every tree in existence. If that's the case, use "each of the trees."

 

[Mystery Meat II]

"He learned that the trees, though unique, share a root system."

 

[RickStain]

Why wouldn't each tree be unique? Is that fact particularly important?

Each tree was connected through a single root system.

 

[Ace]

Each tree is unique but shares one root system, he learned.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Trees are stupid.

 

[txsportsscribe]

who will play the tree in the movie?

 

[The Big Ragu]

I heard some moss took a lichen to those trees.

 

[IllMil]

I didn't write this, but in the context, unique is important to the message of the piece.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Each tree shares a common root system.

Or

The trees share a single root system.

 

[93Devil]

I thought they just spent their lives looking for wives.

 

[Pilot]

How's about you leave the tree and its communal root system alone, capiche?

 

[Rhody31]

"He learned that although each tree is unique, they are connected with one root system."

I'm having a brain fart. My gut's telling me this is incorrect, with the each-they agreement. Am I right?

Although each tree is unique, he learned they are connected with one root system.

 

[93Devil]

Would replacing "one" with "single" make the sentence clearer?

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

'Why don't you make like a tree...'

 

[Buck]

You can't use the third-person plural pronoun with an antecedant of 'tree,' which is what you have in the example.
You have to rewrite it with a plural antecedant or with singular pronoun.
There would be many ways to do that, but choosing the best rewrite is not possible without the context of the story.
All on can really say is that example provided is incorrect. There are many ways to fix it.

 

[mustangj17]

Trees are stupid.

Trees are terrific!!

 

[Ace]

I think that I shall never see
a sentence lovely as a tree
or a unique tree trio sharing a root

 

[Buck]

Yet each tree individual to boot.