In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the underlined part of the sentence

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the underlined part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘no improvement’.

Leaders from various countries met to discuss about the global problem of earth heating and environmental degradation in Mexico.

a)            Met to discuss for

b)            Met to discuss

c)            Meet to discuss about

d)            No improvement

Sol:

‘discuss’ means to talk about someone or something, it already has preposition ‘about’ in it, so using about with it is superfluous hence discuss takes no preposition the correct answer is option b replace ‘met to discuss about’ with ‘met to discuss’.