some sentence correction questions

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some sentence correction questions

by jkati » Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:42 am
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

2.Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950's and early 1960's that predicted
the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine
it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.
(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it

3. For people who have never worked for a living, any job may instill a valuable
sense of self-worth and open doors to better jobs in the future.
(A) may instill a valuable sense of self-worth and open doors to better jobs in the
future
(B) might instill for them a valuable sense of self- worth and to open doors to
better jobs in the future
(C) may, in them, instill a valuable sense of self-worth, opening their doors to
better jobs in the future
(D) opening the door later for a better job and giving them a valuable sense of
self-worth now
(E) may open the door for a better job later and giving them a valuable sense now
of their self-worth
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by sameerballani » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:12 am
jkati 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

imo e
oa and source?

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by sameerballani » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:14 am
jkati wrote: 2.Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950's and early 1960's that predicted
the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine
it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.
(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it
imo a
oa and source?

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by HSPA » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:20 am
+1 for a
wisdom and ethinicity are nouns; are compared here.
sameerballani wrote:
jkati wrote: 2.Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950's and early 1960's that predicted
the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine
it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.
(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it
imo a
oa and source?
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by jkati » Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:44 pm
Ans is E but how

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by sameerballani » Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:45 pm
jkati wrote:Ans is E but how
for which one?

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by jkati » Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:49 pm
sameerballani wrote:
jkati wrote:Ans is E but how
for which one?
for question 1 answer is E

for question 2 Answer is A


for question 3 answer is A

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by jkati » Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:50 pm
Actually i know the answers but how? i need explanation so that i can understand the logic.

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