A Kannada notice with a special opening day
An original notice says “ಗ್ರಂಥಾಲಯವು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ತೆರೆಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಬುಧವಾರ ಮಾತ್ರ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ ತೆರೆಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಮರಳಿಸಲು ಬರುವವರು ಈ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯನ್ನು ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕು.” A reader concludes that the library never opens in the morning, while another assumes that the special Wednesday time applies only to borrowing and not to people returning books. The task is to identify the ordinary arrangement, the exception and the instruction explicitly addressed to returning visitors. No knowledge of an actual municipal library is required, and no numerical opening hour should be invented. A good answer should preserve the difference between a general statement and an exception instead of turning one day’s arrangement into a universal rule for the whole week.
1. State the supported information.
Read the worked answer
The library normally opens in the morning but opens in the afternoon on Wednesday. People returning books are told to note that change.
2. Explain the first reader’s overstatement.
Read the worked answer
The word ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ supplies the ordinary pattern and ಬುಧವಾರ ಮಾತ್ರ limits the exception. Saying never opens in the morning discards that contrast.