Subject-Verb Agreement in Collective Nouns

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Read the following sentence carefully:

"The committee have reached their decision after hours of discussion." Which of the following options best corrects the subject-verb agreement error in this sentence?

The committee has reached their decision after hours of discussion.

The committees have reached their decision after hours of discussion.

The committee were reaching their decision after hours of discussion.

The committee reaching their decision after hours of discussion.

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