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by nikhilkatira » Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:14 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 martin.jonson007 » Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:22 am
OOPS....!

E is correct...!
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by hardik.jadeja » Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:44 am
The question is trying to test parallelism.

The correct answer is E.

In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt with the companies' earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.

A breaks the parallelism. B and C present superficial parallelism. D creates an awkward construction - (clause), (modifier), (modifier).

Pick E.

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by nikhilkatira » Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:53 am
hardik.jadeja wrote:The question is trying to test parallelism.

The correct answer is E.

In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt with the companies' earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.

A breaks the parallelism. B and C present superficial parallelism. D creates an awkward construction - (clause), (modifier), (modifier).

Pick E.


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Hardik can please explain how A breaks parallelism ?
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by hardik.jadeja » Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:18 am
nikhilkatira wrote: Hardik can please explain how A breaks parallelism ?
Since the non-underlined part of the sentence used the term companies twice, so we need the plural possessive companies'.

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by Haaress » Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:19 pm
Edited: I should have seen the difference. Companies vs Campany's. Please disregard. Thanks! I agree with Hardik's explanation.

I was split between A and E. I chose E based in consicion.

Other than being wordy, can someone share what issue(s) A bears.

I see double parallelism in the sentence "to pay by.... to profit by..." it that just superficial?

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