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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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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 .
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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29 Sep 2012, 01:10
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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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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IMO A
The report urges convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors
List <to convene> a White House conference <to encourage> Congress to appropriate .... <to establish> networks of..
The verbs have to be parallel
B. convening a White House conference, to encourage Congress to appropriate more money for schools and for establishing networks of black mentors >> not parallel C. convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and to establish networks of black mentors >> not parallel D. the convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors
Only A and E are parallel:
A. 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
I will go with A, since per my info, urge does not need for.
urge someone to do something == to try to get someone to do something. Ex. I urge you to give skiing a try.
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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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03 May 2016, 07:51
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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A is correct because there is no error in it ; convening , encouraging and establishing are clearly || ;
C on the other hand is grammatically correct i believe as
Encouraging modifies report and phrase " Congress to appropriate more money for schools and to establish networks of black mentors " seems to be parallel
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idontknowwhy94 wrote:
A is correct because there is no error in it ; convening , encouraging and establishing are clearly || ;
C on the other hand is grammatically correct i believe as
Encouraging modifies report and phrase " Congress to appropriate more money for schools and to establish networks of black mentors " seems to be parallel
Can C be correct here ??
Had that been the case, it should have "and" between 'convening' and 'encouraging', but not a comma.
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