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by ska7945 » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:18 am
Rather than continue to produce most of the items necessary for subsistence, a growing number of farm families during the first decades of the nineteenth century began to specialize in the production of grain or cotton and to use the cash proceeds from selling their crops for buying
necessities.
(A) selling their crops for buying
(B) the sales of their crops for buying
(C) their selling of crops so as to buy
(D) their selling crops for buying of
(E) the sale of their crops to buy

answer E
what is the difference between "the sales of their crops" and "the sale of their crops"? or is it just because of "to" and "for"? i chose b at the first time.
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by anju » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:23 am
If you observe the npon underlined sentence contains verb in the form of to use, to specialize... the verb used should be in parallel n hence use to buy.
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