Question
I. While the IPL Governing Council will meet next week
(A) to chalk in the final details and approve the schedule, (B) it is understood that the BCCI has informally intimated (C) the franchises about the plan (D) . II. The cash-rich event was originally scheduled to start in (A) the end of March but the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions (B) that were put in place to contain the virus, (C) led to an indefinite postponement (D) . Directions: In each of the questions, two sentences are given which are divided into four parts (A), (B), (C) and (D). Both the sentences may have errors in one of the four parts or may not have any error at all. You have to find out the parts containing error and mark that alternative as the answer.Solution
I - ‘Chalk in’ is an incorrect phrase. The correct phrase to be used here is ‘chalk out’ which means to plan or make a scheme of something by detailed illustration. II - Start will be followed by the preposition ‘at’ in place of ‘in. The sentence is pointing towards a specific point in time that ‘when’ exactly was the event scheduled to start.
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