Multiple choice

Directions: Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3) and (4) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark (5) as the answer.

Before presenting the budget proposals, the minister duly sought permission of the chair to lay them before the House.

  1. permission of the chairman to lay them

  2. permission of the chair to lay it

  3. permission of the chairman for laying them

  4. permission of the chair to lay them off

  5. no correction required
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E Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence is correct as given.

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