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# In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money

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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 companyтАЩs earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.

(A) by using the companyтАЩs earnings and to profit
(B) by using the companiesтАЩ earnings and by profiting
(C) using the companiesтАЩ earnings and profiting
(D) with the companyтАЩs earnings, profiting
(E) with the companiesтАЩ earnings and to profit
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05 Jan 2004, 22:46
E keeps the parrallellism - to pay off and to profit
it is also better to say pay off the debts with, instead of paying off the debt using
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06 Jan 2004, 01:36
dj wrote:
In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the companyтАЩs earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.
(A) by using the companyтАЩs earnings and to profit
(B) by using the companiesтАЩ earnings and by profiting
(C) using the companiesтАЩ earnings and profiting
(D) with the companyтАЩs earnings, profiting
(E) with the companiesтАЩ earnings and to profit

paul, you are smart man! first i voted for c, then i saw hoping to profit, not hoping profiting... any idea whether it is the right choice?
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06 Jan 2004, 07:41
Paul wrote:
E keeps the parrallellism - to pay off and to profit
it is also better to say pay off the debts with, instead of paying off the debt using

I was cranked between "by using" and "with".

Thanks. ans is E
06 Jan 2004, 07:41
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