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by ketkoag » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:39 pm
In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the company's earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.

A. by using the company's earnings and to profit
B. by using the companies' earnings and by profiting
C. using the companies' earnings and profiting
D. with the company's earnings, profiting
E. with the companies' earnings and to profit
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by vaishalijain7 » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:15 pm
IMO 'A'. What is OA?
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by dumb.doofus » Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:38 pm
IMO E

Reason 1: Parallel structure. to pay off... to profit

Reason 2: by using seems wordy, instead "with" seems perfectly ok..
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by thetrystero » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:27 pm
In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the company's earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.

A. by using the company's earnings and to profit
B. by using the companies' earnings and by profiting
C. using the companies' earnings and profiting
D. with the company's earnings, profiting
E. with the companies' earnings and to profit
My answer: E

possessive of plural is "companies'", not "company's". eliminates A,D.
"by using" is redundant. eliminates B

idiom is:
1. hoping to pay off ..
2. hoping to profit ..
eliminates C.
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by scoobydooby » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:42 pm
thanks thetrystero.
i was confused between A and E. company's vs. companies' helped clear it.
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by nervesofsteel » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:15 am
E for me too

usage of companies' and parallelism between to Pay off and to profit...
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