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by beat_gmat_09 » Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:23 pm
thephoenix wrote:company's earnings vs companies' earnings
can anyone make explain what does the above two form stands for
The difference is only with companies and company's
company's is possesive noun whereas companies is plural if you look at the
non-underlined part investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies
it says investors buy sums of money to buy companies (plural)
they dont intend to use one particular company's earnings, rather all the companies.

you can straight away eliminate A and D here.

BTW, i thought of parallelism in this question here.
to pay off the debt .... and to profit
using this rule only A and E remains and as against company's and companies
E takesover.
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by Stevenkgr » Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:56 am
bupbebeo wrote: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

Please give me right answer and explanation in details
The correct answer is A.

investors borrow to buy companies . . . . . . . . . hoping to pay off and to profit . . . To corresponds to the second to and there is a paralerism.The sentense by using . .. . .is a secondary clause
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by GMATGuruNY » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:22 am
bupbebeo wrote: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

Please give me right answer and explanation in details
Quickest approach:

In A and D, the singular possessive construction company's does agree with the plural noun companies. Eliminate A and D.

B incorrectly states that the investors are hoping to pay off debt...by profiting richly by the later resale. It doesn't make sense to say that the investors are hoping to pay off debt by profiting by the resale. The intended meaning of the sentence is that the investors are hoping to pay off debt...and to profit richly. Eliminate B.

In C, the modifiers using and profiting seem to be describing the noun debt. The debt is not using and profiting. Eliminate C.

The correct answer is E.
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by pavitkumar » Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:49 pm
sumanr84 wrote:
thephoenix wrote:company's earnings vs companies' earnings
can anyone make explain what does the above two form stands for
company's earnings - Acts as Singular possesive
companies' earnings - Acts as Plural possesive

Can you please elaborate a little on Singular possessive and Plural Possessive ??
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by aspirant2011 » Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:55 pm
I am confused between D & E.......................in E shouldn't there have been a comma splice before "and to profit" so that an complete independent clause could have been there..........................can someone clear my doubt...............
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by tanviet » Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:52 am
this test us concept of PARALLEL, which is said simply in gmat book, but which requires us to realize which idea is parallel with which idea.

gmat SC test logic mainly. WHICH IDEA IS PARALLEL WITH WHICH IDEA in a sentence is easy to say but hard to realize. for non native speaker, reading skill is the key for verbal section.

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by aspirant2011 » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:24 pm
guys dont u think that in E if there would have been a comma "," in front of "and to profit" then the sentence would have been proper because the sentence "and to profit" stands separate as the investors are paying debt with company's earning..........any comment on my doubt???????
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by GMATGuruNY » Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:00 am
aspirant2011 wrote:guys dont u think that in E if there would have been a comma "," in front of "and to profit" then the sentence would have been proper because the sentence "and to profit" stands separate as the investors are paying debt with company's earning..........any comment on my doubt???????
No comma is needed. The infinitive phrases to pay off debt and to profit richly are serving as the direct objects of the verb modifier hoping. What were the companies hoping? They were hoping to pay off debt and to profit richly. Since there are only two direct objects, no comma is needed. Had there been three direct objects, a comma would be placed before the last direct object in the list:

...hoping to pay off debt, to profit richly, and to raise the stock price.

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by sujamait » Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:46 am
i chose E just by looks..
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by mankey » Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:57 am
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by prashant misra » Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:40 am
my official answer is E.
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by crackinggmat » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:11 am
i have read somewhere ,....use by for actual doer of action and use through /with for non actual doer....

eg ...the piza was eaten by hungry students.

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by daddeeee » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:48 am
confused between C & E.Where should the paralellism start with.I mean hoping...profiting or to hope..to profit
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by ArunangsuSahu » Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:09 pm
Hoping to pay off the debt with.... and to profit

SO (E) is the choice
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by tracyyahoo » Sat Dec 31, 2011 12:45 am
I think it is B because it is logically stated, that the investor buy companies to pay debt and after buying this company, they try to sell company's divisions for profits. So the sentence should parallel...

bupbebeo wrote: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

Please give me right answer and explanation in details
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