Sentence Correction

1)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

I choose A, but the answer is E
the only reason I think E is correct is because of shorter length

Do you find any other reasons?

2)３． Legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario requires of both public and private employers that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are usually held by men.

(A) that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are
(B) that pay for jobs historically held by women should be the same as for a job requiring comparable skills
(C) to pay the same in jobs historically held by women as in jobs of comparable skill that are
(D) to pay the same regardless of whether a job was historically held by women or is one demanding comparable skills
(E) to pay as much for jobs historically held by women as for a job demanding comparable skills

I choose E
eliminated A and B cause of idiom 'require to'
but the correct answer is A

pls explain the reason

2)

Barron,

For the first question, A is incorrect because it uses the singular "company's" rather than the plural "companies'". Note that earlier in the sentence, it used "companies" - we have to stay consistent.

As for the second question, E is incorrect because it's not parallel. It says "jobs historically held by women..." versus "a job demanding comparable skills". We need to stay parallel: either "a job" and "a job", or "jobs" and "jobs".

I always recommended looking at idioms last - it's too easy to get caught up in some funny situation like this one, where we don't need to use "require to". Instead, look for more solid grammatical issues to focus on first.

Hope this helps!

In future, please post 1 question per thread!

barron wrote:1)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

I choose A, but the answer is E
the only reason I think E is correct is because of shorter length

Do you find any other reasons?

".. by using" is an awkward phase and wholly unnecessary in this (and pretty much all) sentences.

We would say "I pay you with money", not "I pay you by using money".

Taking complicated sentences and rephrasing the key terms in much simpler sentences can help you find the best answer.

Another problem with (a) is "company's". The non-underlined part of the sentence uses "companies" (twice), so we need the plural possessive "companies'".

2) Legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario requires of both public and private employers that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are usually held by men.

(A) that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are
(B) that pay for jobs historically held by women should be the same as for a job requiring comparable skills
(C) to pay the same in jobs historically held by women as in jobs of comparable skill that are
(D) to pay the same regardless of whether a job was historically held by women or is one demanding comparable skills
(E) to pay as much for jobs historically held by women as for a job demanding comparable skills

I choose E
eliminated A and B cause of idiom 'require to'
but the correct answer is A

pls explain the reason

2)

You're correct that "require" is idiomatically followed by "to".

For example:

Bob is required to show up for work at 8am.

However, there are lots of cases in which that's not correct.

When someone or thing is actually doing the requiring, we use the subjunctive tense.

For example:

Bob's job requires that he show up for work at 8am.

Similarly, in the question you posted:

Legislation requires of employers that pay be the same.

This particular sentence is tough because the wording at the beginning is awkward; however, since it's not underlined, we have to live with it and make the underlined portion match up.

A is incorrect because you do not "pay...by using", you simply "pay"
E is correct because of "TO pay"
Hope this helps.

Request you to advice why option C is incorrect...???

Thanks

poonam197 wrote:Request you to advice why option C is incorrect...???

Thanks

There are two questions. Which one you are talking about?

With reference to question-1

1)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

poonam197 wrote:With reference to question-1

1)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

Problem with C: "profiting" is not parallel to "to pay off."

Thanks... That helped.. !

Parallilsm appears to be simple at first but lately I am having problems with it.
first,the question:

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

Non-underlined portion uses companies so A,D are eliminated.
Between B,C and E>>
E is voted as the correct answer because ".. to pay.." is parallel to "..to profit"

Why are we not looking for the parallism between using..earning..profiting..?Please explain B and C clearly.Thanks!

c'mon guys..explanations pleease!

Some thoughts:
1. I want to pay with my pocket money.
=> We never say, "I will pay by using my pocket money".
This eliminates option A and B.
2. Non-underlined portion has the plural noun "companies". So, we should maintain it.
=> The options B and D have used "company's". We can eliminate B and D.
3. I will borrow, hoping to pay with XX and to make money.
=> Hoping to Xx and to YY is the correct structure in this sentence.
This eliminates option C.
The remaining option E is the best answer.

Referring to Q.3

I eliminated choice A because in Choice A "comparable skill that are usually held by men.", that is modifying skill so verb "are" is not correct.

Any comments!

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:In future, please post 1 question per thread!

barron wrote:1)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

I choose A, but the answer is E
the only reason I think E is correct is because of shorter length

Do you find any other reasons?

".. by using" is an awkward phase and wholly unnecessary in this (and pretty much all) sentences.

We would say "I pay you with money", not "I pay you by using money".

Taking complicated sentences and rephrasing the key terms in much simpler sentences can help you find the best answer.

Another problem with (a) is "company's". The non-underlined part of the sentence uses "companies" (twice), so we need the plural possessive "companies'".

2) Legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario requires of both public and private employers that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are usually held by men.

(A) that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are
(B) that pay for jobs historically held by women should be the same as for a job requiring comparable skills
(C) to pay the same in jobs historically held by women as in jobs of comparable skill that are
(D) to pay the same regardless of whether a job was historically held by women or is one demanding comparable skills
(E) to pay as much for jobs historically held by women as for a job demanding comparable skills

I choose E
eliminated A and B cause of idiom 'require to'
but the correct answer is A

pls explain the reason

2)

You're correct that "require" is idiomatically followed by "to".

For example:

Bob is required to show up for work at 8am.

However, there are lots of cases in which that's not correct.

When someone or thing is actually doing the requiring, we use the subjunctive tense.

For example:

Bob's job requires that he show up for work at 8am.

Similarly, in the question you posted:

Legislation requires of employers that pay be the same.

This particular sentence is tough because the wording at the beginning is awkward; however, since it's not underlined, we have to live with it and make the underlined portion match up.

In the first option A,isnt the ththat clause at the end of the sentence modifying skill and shouldnt skill be plural becaus ethere are many jobs here

Stuart's post is quite sufficient to spot the right answer. I think we all focused on the wrong aspect of the question. Since we are talking about "companies" which is plural, hence its only option E that sounds correct with companies', when referring to the subject. Subject is plural and that parallelism should be retained, unless we specifically need to change the subject. I agree with the correct idiomatic use of "using" explanation but eventually it was quite easy to spot the error when you shift the focus to the subject of the sentence.