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Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is a condemning of racial injustice and a calling
for nonviolent resistance to that injustice.

MG answer : [Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” is CONDEMNATION of racial injustice and a
CALL for nonviolent resistance to that injustice]

My Doubt : Can the following answer also be correct ?

Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” CONDEMNS racial injustice and
CALLS for nonviolent resistance to that injustice.

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is the question correct? It seems that something or the other is missing from the questions. Please post the correct one
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My Doubt : Can the following answer also be correct ?

Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” CONDEMNS racial injustice and
CALLS for nonviolent resistance to that injustice.
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Hi sunitagitu, looks good to me.
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Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is a condemning of racial injustice and a calling
for nonviolent resistance to that injustice.

MG answer : [Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” is CONDEMNATION of racial injustice and a
CALL for nonviolent resistance to that injustice]

My Doubt : Can the following answer also be correct ?

Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” CONDEMNS racial injustice and
CALLS for nonviolent resistance to that injustice.
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Both the original answer and your answer are correct.

The reason the original problem didn't include your answer, is because it looks like this:



The instructions say that the error is within the underlined section. But in your sentence, you also removed the word 'is', which isn't underlined! Hopefully that explains the mystery. Your sentence is right, but it isn't technically following the instructions.
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Thanks a lot!! Yes I totally missed that IS is not underlined. Mystery is solved now! :)
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Hello,
Can someone please explain why the original sentence with gerunds (condemning, calling) is incorrect?

Thank you in advance!
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Hello,
Can someone please explain why the original sentence with gerunds (condemning, calling) is incorrect?

Thank you in advance!
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Hi, IMO, for below mentioned reasons:
(A) "a Condemning" sounds incorrect (unidiomatic),
(B) GMAT prefers an appropriate action noun (provided it exists) over a complex gerund . Hence "Condemnation" is preferred over "a condemning" (even if it's a correct idiom idk).
For e.g. in case of "the raising of flag" It cannot be written in form of an appropriate action noun hence here we will be forced to go with the complex gerund phrase.

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