Proving a result in Baire categories

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If $A\subset X$ is a $G_\delta$ set and dense in $X$, then what I want to show is that $X\setminus A$ is of the first Baire category.

Where the meaning of first category is that I can write

$$X\setminus A= \bigcup_n^{\infty}E_n$$

and the sets $E_n \subset X$ are nowhere dense ($X\setminus \overline{E_{n}}$ is dense or $\forall \epsilon>0 $ and $x \in X$ $B_{\epsilon }(x) \nsubseteq \overline{A}$)

My attempt

Then we can write

$$A=\bigcap_{n=1}^{\infty}C_{n} $$

where $C_{n}$ is open for all $n$, this is because $A$ is $G_{\delta}$ so what I was triying to show that each of the $C_n$ should be dense and then conclude that since I can write the complement using DeMorgan's laws as

$$X\setminus A= \bigcup X\setminus C_n$$

I can get that the complements $X\setminus (X\setminus C_n)$ are dense but So I think it won't help because this is in fact $C_n$.

So can someone help me to fix this idea (If I am in the right track of course) or provide a different proof of this please?

Edition

I want to conclude that I can

$$X\setminus A= \bigcup_n^{\infty}E_n$$

where the sets $E_n \subset X$ are nowhere dense. To do that we use the fact that since $A$ is $G_{\delta}$

$$A=\bigcap_{n=1}^{\infty}C_{n} $$

and given that $A$ is dense we have that eah $C_n$ is dense too. So now we may write (By DeMorgan's laws)

$$X\setminus A= \bigcup_n^{\infty} X \setminus C_n$$

So we only need to prove that $X \setminus (X \setminus C_n)$ is dense, but $X \setminus (X \setminus C_n)=C_n$ that is dense, therefore $X \setminus A$ is of first category.

Am I right?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

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Let $A^c=X\setminus A$ be complement of $A$, $\overline{A}$ be closure of $A$ and $A^o$ be interior of $A$.

We define:

1). $A$ is dense iff $\overline{A}=X$.

2). $A$ is nowhere dense iff $\overline{A}^o=\varnothing$.

In this problem, we will prove that $C_n^c$ is nowhere dense.

First since $A\subset C_n$ and $\overline{A}=X$, there is $$ \overline{C_n}\supset \overline{A}=X\quad\text{Thus}\quad \overline{C_n}=X $$ So $C_n$ is dense. Clearly $\overline{C_n}^c=\varnothing$. Moreover $$ \overline{C_n}^c=(((C_n^{c})^o)^c)^c=(C_n^{c})^o=\varnothing $$ Since $C_n$ is open, $C_n^c$ is closed. So $\overline{C_n^c}=C_n^c$. Thus we have $$ \overline{C_n^c}^o=(C_n^c)^o=\varnothing $$ i.e. $C_n^c$ is nowhere dense.

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Since $A$ is dense and $A \subset C_n$, it follows that $C_n$ is dense.

Now show that the complement of a dense open set is a (closed) nowhere dense set.