Jackson Pollock, an influential American painter credited

A. a brushstroke and a paint splatter = singular and needs its, and each movement is singular

(A) each movement a brushstroke or a paint splatter contributing its correct - Correct
(B) all the movements a brushstroke or a paint splatter contributing their your answer - sub verb agreement error
(C) all the movements a brushstroke or a paint splatter contributing its - Sub verb agreement error
(D) every movement a brushstroke or a paint splatter contributing their - Pronoun error (their)
(E) each movement a brushstroke or a paint splatter contributing their - Pronoun error (their)

A.The answer choice should have its - referring to singular antecedent movement.Also A is preferable to C as it gives the description which holds good for all movements.

Zeke, one question between (A) and (C), how do you choose EACH.
Each refers to SINGULAR....

Jackson Pollock, an influential American painter credited with the birth of abstract expressionism, has been called an "action painter" for his method of creating works of art that are the products of spontaneous movements, each movement a brushstroke or a paint splatter contributing its own unique flair to the production of the final masterpiece.

Do you cut this out and read or read as :

Jackson Pollock, an influential American painter credited with the birth of abstract expressionism, has been called an "action painter" for his method of creating works of art that are the products of spontaneous movements, each movement a brushstroke or a paint splatter contributing its own unique flair to the production of the final masterpiece.

or as the below :

Jackson Pollock, an influential American painter credited with the birth of abstract expressionism, has been called an "action painter" for his method of creating works of art that are the products of spontaneous movements, each movement a brushstroke or a paint splatter contributing its own unique flair to the production of the final masterpiece.

Here we cannot use EACH..

I want to know how you read this.

Here the keyword is "movement" right after the comma. So we know the way to read it is like this:

Jackson Pollock, an influential American painter credited with the birth of abstract expressionism, has been called an "action painter" for his method of creating works of art that are the products of spontaneous movements, each movement a brushstroke or a paint splatter contributing its own unique flair to the production of the final masterpiece.

or really:

[This guy] has been called blah for creating works of art that are the products of spontaneous movements, each movement a brushstroke or a paint splatter contributing its own unique flair to the production of the final masterpiece.


Yes, "Each" is singular---but the idea here is lots of singulars combine to make up the notion of "movements." You still need to describe each movement by itself.