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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 mentorsA. 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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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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saikarthikreddy wrote: 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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convening ,encouraging ,establishing should be parallel so A
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Thanks for the feedback. @souvik-just wanted to know if there is any other way to construct this sentence .Thanks !!
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what is the problem with C
C. convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and to establish networks of black mentors
can`t we consider the second part(after the comma)as a modifier showing cause effect relationship as in
the report urges convening a ..., encouraging(effect) congress "to appropriate" ..and "to establish".
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shreygupta3192 wrote: what is the problem with C
C. convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and to establish networks of black mentors
can`t we consider the second part(after the comma)as a modifier showing cause effect relationship as in
the report urges convening a ..., encouraging(effect) congress "to appropriate" ..and "to establish".
please help
thanks Can someone please explain why C is wrong? Why cant we read it as "the report urges convening a ..., encouraging(effect) congress "to appropriate" ..and "to establish"" as pointed out by Shreygupta?
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Sentence is correct as it is given
correct use of all 3 verbs convening ,encouraging ,establishing of the - ing form in parallel is correct
Answer - A
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Option A (Correct): what does the report urge -> convening a conference + encouraging congress to appropriate more money + establishing networks of black mentors. Three phrases are used correctly here with AND to tell what the report says. Option C (Wrong) : convening a conference + encouraging Congress to appropriate more money + “to” establish network of black mentors. Missing "AND continuous verb” before last phrase and hence the sentence is not consistent.
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