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Re: In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money [#permalink]
 12 Dec 2011, 07:00
Its E..correct usage of " Companies' " and paralleism
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12 Dec 2011, 19:25
I don't understand why it's not A. Although the non underlined uses the plural companies, to pay off debt, wouldn't we need the singular company for the underlined portion since you only use a single company's earning?
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Re: In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money [#permalink]
12 Dec 2011, 21:50
nice question, silly me i was thinking the of going wid B, since 'by using' the companies' 'by profiting' is parallel.
But E is the clear winner here!
by using is passive construction ...... gmat doesn't like passive.
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JohnLewis1980 wrote: ritula 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 Hi mates, IMO ETo maintain //ism, the last part of the answer should be "to profit", therefore just A and E left "hoping to pay [...] and to profit [...] Now, between A and E, E seems to be simpler than A, so, E OA and Source? Cheers I agree with you in point that E is simpler than A. IMO E
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14 Dec 2011, 05:19
i agree that E is correct because of plural possessive.
but in these two options, which one is correct:
E. with the companies' earnings and to profit
A. by using the companies' earnings and to profit
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guys for the answer to be either A or E, should'nt the construction be a bit different; should'nt the construction ".....earnings, and to profit.." By using the commas, the parallelism seems straight forward but without comma, "hoping to pay off the debt by using the company's earnings and to profit richly by later resale of the companies or their divisions." seems to modify the preceding clause. verbal experts, please explain where I am missing.
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12 Dec 2012, 09:32
Can somebody please clarify why A is wrong??
I don't think it is just for using "by".
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tricky one... Got it right though...E.. Posted from my mobile device 
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