Read the following sentence.

The girls had to go back and look at the article again before blank could answer the question.

Which pronoun correctly completes the sentence?

a.

she

b.

them

c.

he

d.

they

They

Explanation:

she / he are not answers as they are singular nouns, we are dealing with a group of people.

Now read through the sentence with our remaining two options:

The girls had to go back and look at the article again before they could answer the question.

This sounds right, now let's check the other answer just to make sure.

The girls had to go back and look at the article again before them could answer the question.

This doesn't sound right, so we'll answer with "they"

they

Explanation:

since there is more than one girl so it would be plural