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The report urges convening a White House conference, [#permalink] New post 26 Sep 2012, 23:11
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The report urges convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors
A. convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors
B. convening a White House conference, to encourage Congress to appropriate more money for schools and for establishing networks of black mentors
C. convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and to establish networks of black mentors
D. the convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors
E. for convening a White House conference, for encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors
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Re: The report urges convening a White House conference [#permalink] New post 26 Sep 2012, 23:15
I have a conceptual question here .

The report urges convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors

The report-Subject
urges-Verb
convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors-Object.

Wont the construction be better if the object takes a noun form(gerund) .Here the sentence has participle phrases.
Any suggestions . :!:
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Re: The report urges convening a White House conference [#permalink] New post 28 Sep 2012, 23:54
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Here the sentence has participle phrases.
Any suggestions .

It will be better if you elaborate what participial phrases are used in the correct form of the sentence?
It would help me to resolve your doubt on this.
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Re: The report urges convening a White House conference [#permalink] New post 29 Sep 2012, 01:10
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I have a conceptual question here .

The report urges convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors

The report-Subject
urges-Verb
convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors-Object.

Wont the construction be better if the object takes a noun form(gerund) .Here the sentence has participle phrases.
Any suggestions . :!:


The report urges convening a white house conference. : This much is enough to make this part a complete sentence.
Rest of the sentence constitutes what the conference will do. i.e. modifying the conference and best usage will be using two parallel participle phrases.

"encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools" + "and" (conjunction) + "establishing networks of black mentors"

You already have definite noun(The report) to act as a subject, why do you want to use a gerund ??
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Re: The report urges convening a White House conference [#permalink] New post 29 Sep 2012, 07:16
convening ,encouraging ,establishing should be parallel
so A
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Re: The report urges convening a White House conference [#permalink] New post 29 Sep 2012, 13:13
Thanks for the feedback.
@souvik-just wanted to know if there is any other way to construct this sentence .Thanks !!
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