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Passing disparaging comments on a colleague's integrity invite severe and equally intense backlash.

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Passing disparaging comments on a colleague's integrity invites severe and equally intense backlash.

Can someone please point out the correct sentence with an explanation?

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Passing disparaging comments on a colleague's integrity invites severe and equally intense backlash. should be correct
since comments themselves don't invite backlash but the activity of Passing disparaging comments does.

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Passing disparaging comments on a colleague's integrity invites severe and equally intense backlash.

Verb-ing ( gerund ) Passing ( verb acting as noun) and will be subject as well here...
plurality is singular because of gerund
invites is correct as verb in latter part of sentence

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Passing disparaging comments on a colleague's integrity invite severe and equally intense backlash.

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Passing disparaging comments on a colleague's integrity invites severe and equally intense backlash.

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Passing disparaging comments on a colleague's integrity invites severe and equally intense backlash.

Here, gerund acts as a singular subject..and hence, this is the correct version.
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Passing disparaging comments on a colleague's integrity invite severe and equally intense backlash.

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Well, GMAT would perhaps like none of these and might want to articulate it as:

The passing of disparaging comments on a colleague's integrity invites severe and equally intense backlash.
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Making derogatory remarks against a colleague's moral character provokes a strong and emotional response.

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