A more helpful rule:RBBmba@2014 wrote:OK. So,when the subject of claims is referring to something OTHER THAN ITSELF claims is OR CLAIM THAT is used on GMAT. Right ?GMATGuruNY wrote: If we insert that after claims, we get:
The electronics company has unveiled what it claims that is the world's smallest network digital camcorder.
This sentence makes no sense.
A to be modifier must serve to express the state-of-being of the preceding SUBJECT.
The COMPANY claims TO BE solvent.
The FOSSILS are believed TO BE five million years old.
The AUTHOR is known TO BE shy.
In each of these sentences, the to be modifier serves to express the state-of-being of the preceding subject.
Corollary to the rule above:
If a subject is not making a claim about ITS OWN STATE-OF-BEING, the usage of claims to be is incorrect.
If a subject is making a claim about the state-of-being of something other than itself, we use claims + is:
The electronics company has unveiled what it CLAIMS IS the world's smallest network digital camcorder.
The electronics company CLAIMS that its new digital camcorder IS the world's smallest.
In the OA, what seems to serve as the subject of is:The electronics company has unveiled what it claims is the world's smallest network digital camcorder.
For the above sentence, could you please shed light on
1) which is the SUBJECT of the VERB is
what = the world's smallest network digital camcorder.
I do not recommend that you attempt to rewrite OAs.2)how we can rewrite this sentence without WHAT ?
