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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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joemama142000 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
A uses correct parallelism " hope to pay....to profit"
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
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HIMALAYA wrote: joemama142000 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 Agree with llism. but go with E. agree...its E)...possessive form of "companies" is "companies`"
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
25 Nov 2005, 12:18
Clear E.
Because companies' is correctly used here and parallelism ( of the verbs to buy.. and to profit )
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joemama142000 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
the OA is E
this is a case of parallelism
hoping to pay.... and to profit
B, C, D are out
by using is wordier than with so E is preffered
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
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Parallilsm appears to be simple at first but lately I am having problems with it. first,the question: Quote: 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 Non-underlined portion uses companies so A,D are eliminated. Between B,C and E>> E is voted as the correct answer because ".. to pay.." is parallel to "..to profit" Why are we not looking for the parallism between using..earning..profiting..?Please explain B and C clearly.Thanks!
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c'mon guys..explanations pleease!
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tejal777 wrote: c'mon guys..explanations pleease! investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt with the companys' earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions. The inverstors hope to pay off... and to profile richly later is correct parallelism. investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the company's earnings and by profiting by the later resale of the companies or their divisions. If you make "earnings" and "profiting" parallel, it will mean that the investors hope to pay off debt by selling the company later. Moreover "by profiting" makes the setence meaning awakward. If inversters hoped to pay off the debt using the profit the correct sentence should have been- 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 by the profit of later resale of the companies or their divisions.
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
18 Nov 2009, 22:43
It is not clear..will somebody give a meaningful explaination??
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
28 Dec 2009, 11:38
Hi I too got it wrong...
Stuck with C...
A proper look reveals certain stuff...
We need to look for parallelism in the verbs rather than the prepositional phrase.
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.
Since only E satisfies the criterion, the answer should be E....
A really challenging question tooo.....
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
04 Jan 2010, 20:39
"We need to look for parallelism in the verbs rather than the prepositional phrase."
I do not think we can applied this rule to every question. I come across many questions in which prepositional phrase parallelism is required.
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
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BCD are out because they are not parallel .... E is preferable over B because by using is wordy
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
01 Aug 2010, 11:29
Must be very silly question but plz tell me difference between company's AND companies'.
what is the usage.
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
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appy001 wrote: Must be very silly question but plz tell me difference between company's AND companies'.
what is the usage. If I am not wrong Company's refers to one company's owning like XYZ is a company and it's (XYZ company's) profit has reduced while companies' means that it belongs to the list of companies....like XYZ has merged with another financial biggie-ABC and hence the companies' profit have doubled. Hope that makes sense!
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
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In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt ........and to profit...................
The non-underlined part of the sentence has 'companies' [plural], hence we need plural companies in the underlined part also.
A is incorrect because it uses company's [singular possessive]
E is correct for using companies' [plural possessive]
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 - CORRECT
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
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appy001 wrote: Must be very silly question but plz tell me difference between company's AND companies'.
what is the usage. company's - possesive form of one company - singular company's profit - is the profit of the company companies' - possesive form of plural companies companies' objective - is the objective of more companies Is it clear now?
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08 Mar 2011, 03:33
I agree, the answer should be E. I stuck with C but you can see (pun intended) how that is not correct.
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
09 Mar 2011, 01:15
This makes sense now, I looked at the question harder and I see how company's is different from companies'. This could be a hard spot under exam pressure though.
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Re: SC leveraged buyout [#permalink]
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I narrowed down to E and A as they both have proper parallel forms: to profit and to pay. Go with E as the latter part of the sentence uses companies as well.
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