Brutal SC # 2

Question

Ok..i just solved a few Brutal SC questions and i think i skipped a heart beat or two

... when i checked the answers, So i am going to start putting these questions one by one here for discussion. If Any one knows of a thread where any of these questions has already been discussed then please just point to it. so..here it goes... ２． 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

seanpatin · Answer

I am going with D, but a lot of them seem reasonable. This is a pretty tough one actually.

empty_spaces · Answer

Please  explain  why choose or reject a particular answer.

thanks

N750 · Answer

I will stick with A. This is a most parallel construction. I don't see anything wrong with this one.

briks123 · Answer

D.

It makes the most sense to pay off the debt with money.... So that limits it to D and E. I will go with D because it seems the most concise.

briks123 · Answer

Nevermind. I think E makes the most sense here using the context of the original sentence.

excelgmat · Answer

I pick C for parallelism.
A and D use singular-company's. 

What is OA

empty_spaces · Answer

OA is E

can someone please explain this more?

empty_spaces · Answer

can you please also explain why A and E are only parallel . 


thanks

sankha · Answer

there is a parallel to X and (to) Y construction in the sentence. The correct choice should maintain parallelism by using 'to profit'. This leaves us choices A and E. The 'by using' in A seems unnecessary. I'd say E.

briks123 · Answer

Okay, heres my explanation for E. "Hoping to pay off the debt by using the company's earnings" is like saying I hope to pay my credit card bill by using this month's pay check. You pay of something  with  something. 

Same problem with C. You pay off something with something. Besides, C is not parallel. Profiting is not parallel to "to buy".

Okay between D and E, I chose E because D suggests that they are paying off the debt and profiting simultaneously. It does not work simply because of the context of the setnence. The sentence says the investors hope to profit LATER, therefore "profiting" is incorrect.

Hope this makes sense.

seofah · Answer

(A) 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. -   "to pay off" and "to profit" is parallel, "company's" is the possessive of a singular, we need possessive of a plural for parallelism. "pay off+by" sounds ackward   

(E) In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy  companies , hoping   to pay off   the debt  with the  companies'  earnings and   to profit    richly by the later resale of the  companies  or their divisions.   - All "blues" should agree and they do!

empty_spaces · Answer

Thanks everyone for the explanations.

vay · Answer

It got to be between A and E.

to pay off......and to profit..satisified the llsm.

Now between A and E, answe is E becuase usage of companies'e earning is correct.

ANSWER is E.

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