Sentence Correction “The teacher told the student that he was late.” What is the issue?

The issue in the sentence "The teacher told the student that he was late" is an ambiguous pronoun reference. A pronoun's reference is ambiguous when it is unclear which noun the pronoun is replacing. In this sentence, the pronoun "he" could refer to either "the teacher" or "the student," making the sentence confusing and its meaning uncertain. To correct this, the sentence needs to be rephrased for clarity, perhaps by repeating the noun or restructuring the sentence.

• Incorrect tense is wrong because both "told" (past) and "was" (past) are consistent.
• Subject-verb disagreement is incorrect as both subjects ("teacher," "he") correctly agree with their respective verbs ("told," "was").
• Missing article is not the problem; the articles "The" and "the" are used appropriately.