The subject of the sentence was cellphones, not people
Posted on: January 25, 2018 at 15:29:15 CT
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Return to 5th grade and map the sentence, George...
'Their cellphones are just two of "thousands" whose texts were not backed up.'
'Their' is a pronoun and cannot be the subject in the sentence.
'celphone' is a noun and is the subject of the sentence