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by sKazi » Sat Sep 01, 2012 3:04 am
An interior decorator that specializes in color claims from a one-hour interview with her clients that he can determine which colors will create the best atmosphere for the inhabitants of the space.

A. from a one-hour interview with her clients that he can determine

B. from a one-hour interview with her clients he has the ability of determining

C. the ability, from a one-hour interview with her clients, of determining

D. to be able, from a one-hour interview with her clients, to determine

E. being able to access, from a one-hour interview with her clients,

OA - D

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by brightwinds » Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:37 am
First off, I imagine that the genders actually agree? That it's "she" throughout?

The basics of this sentence are "An interior decorator claims ___________."

You can't claim FROM something. You can claim TO DO something, you can claim THAT something, you can claim A NOUN, but you cannot claim FROM something. Eliminate A and B.

the ability...of determining is not correct. Idiomatically, it's the ability TO determine (not -ing). Eliminate C

E has the dangerous "being", and you cannot claims being--that makes zero sense, eliminate E.

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As for D, erase what's between the commas and the prepositional clauses and you have a lovely sentence:

An interior decorator...claims to be able...to determine which colors will create the best atmosphere.



Good luck!
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by alex.gellatly » Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:30 pm
sKazi wrote:An interior decorator that specializes in color claims from a one-hour interview with her clients that he can determine which colors will create the best atmosphere for the inhabitants of the space.

A. from a one-hour interview with her clients that he can determine we cannot say claims from in this context

B. from a one-hour interview with her clients he has the ability of determining we cannot say claims from in this context

C. the ability, from a one-hour interview with her clients, of determining we cannot say claims the ability of determining. It must be the ability TO determine

D. to be able, from a one-hour interview with her clients, to determine This is correct because it use the form to be able to determine correctly

E. being able to access, from a one-hour interview with her clients, on the GMAT the form being is almost always incorrect
If we would have said "claims that from a one hour..." that would have been correct. Does this answer you question? Please ask if you have others.
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by confuse mind » Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:08 am
looks like it is infinitive vs gerund.

Can someone please throw some deeper insights on C vs D,i.e.,
the ability of determining vs to be able to determine.
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by machichi » Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:38 pm
confuse mind wrote:looks like it is infinitive vs gerund.

Can someone please throw some deeper insights on C vs D,i.e.,
the ability of determining vs to be able to determine.
The ability of determining is a grammatical stretch. We have the ability to do something. Others have said it before, so I'm just repeating that it's most idiomatic to say it this way.
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by ankit0411 » Mon Sep 03, 2012 2:51 am
sKazi wrote:An interior decorator that specializes in color claims from a one-hour interview with her clients that he can determine which colors will create the best atmosphere for the inhabitants of the space.

A. from a one-hour interview with her clients that he can determine

B. from a one-hour interview with her clients he has the ability of determining

C. the ability, from a one-hour interview with her clients, of determining

D. to be able, from a one-hour interview with her clients, to determine

E. being able to access, from a one-hour interview with her clients,

OA - D

Please explain..!!
The idiom is claims to be able,( ........... ),to determine .

Straight D
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