To reduce the disruptive behavior of a child, a teacher might slap the desk with a ruler to startle her. the sound of the slap is a(n) punishment.

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.

answer; genetics;