SC's Question number - 963, 964

963). For people who have never worked for a living, any job may instill a valuable sense of self-worth and open doors to better jobs in the future.

(A) may instill a valuable sense of self-worth and open doors to better jobs in the future

(B) might instill for them a valuable sense of self- worth and to open doors to better jobs in the future

(C) may, in them, instill a valuable sense of self-worth, opening their doors to better jobs in the future

(D) opening the door later for a better job and giving them a valuable sense of self-worth now

(E) may open the door for a better job later and giving them a valuable sense now of their self-worth

964). 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


Answers --

963). OA - A

B - incorrect - unidiomatic - instill for

C - incorrect - use of they, them makes this choice awkward

D - incorrect - changes the meaning

E - incorrect - violating parallelism - may open ... giving

964). OA - E

B, C, D - incorrect - violating parallelism - Need to profit to maintain the parallel structure.

A - incorrect - uses company's (singular)