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by ketkoag » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:15 am
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 karmayogi » Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:11 am
IMO E.

I believe, non-underlined part (NUP) of a sentence is more important then the underlined part becuase you can't modify the NUP. Observe in NUP: "investors borrow ... to buy companies." Hence, "companies' earning" is correct. Rest is simple parallelism: to pay-off and to profit.

The difference between 'by' and 'with' is really subtle, so I would like some expert to comment on that.
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