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Simple Gerund Parallelism

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Simple Gerund Parallelism

by dvd.vinay Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:54 am

Hi,

What's wrong with the following sentence?

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

Underlined part is replaced with action noun phrases, but as I understand Condemning... and Calling for.. are simple gerund phrases and they should be considered parallel. No?
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Re: Simple Gerund Parallelism

by tim Sat Feb 09, 2013 3:10 pm

sure they're parallel, but neither one is grammatically correct on its own. you can't have "a condemning" or "a calling"; you would have "a condemnation" or "a call"..
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Re: Simple Gerund Parallelism

by ChristineS694 Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:32 am

be+ condemn-ing would be correct?
is condemning, is calling
a calling = religious mission
a condemning = don't exist i guess?
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Re: Simple Gerund Parallelism

by RonPurewal Sun Jan 22, 2017 2:01 am

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