A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
(A) from a one-page writing sample that it can assess
(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing
(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing
(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess
(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,
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B, C & E have verb error but confused between A & D
A firm ... claims <that it can assess> more than ... -- which i picked
A firm ... claims <to be able to assess> more than ... -- the right ans
I am less than a week to GMAT idea so pardon if i missed something obvious
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deepak_tx wrote:A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
(A) from a one-page writing sample that it can assess
(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing
(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing
(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess
(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,
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B, C & E have verb error but confused between A & D
A firm ... claims <that it can assess> more than ... -- which i picked
A firm ... claims <to be able to assess> more than ... -- the right ans
I am less than a week to GMAT idea so pardon if i missed something obvious
Claim to be is the right idiom. D is correct
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Whenever you see a pronoun such as it, its, they, their , you have to check what they refer to. ( For example use of they is wrong in this sentence )
In the first option we have IT , which is intended to refer to firm but it is too far away from the noun it refers and there are other singular nouns in between : analysis and one-page writing sample
So in written English, this IT creates an ambiguity
Option D eliminates this pronoun - one way of fixing the pronoun issue - and gives us a better option.
In the first option we have IT , which is intended to refer to firm but it is too far away from the noun it refers and there are other singular nouns in between : analysis and one-page writing sample
So in written English, this IT creates an ambiguity
Option D eliminates this pronoun - one way of fixing the pronoun issue - and gives us a better option.
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deepak_tx wrote:A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
(A) from a one-page writing sample that it can assess
(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing
(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing
(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess
(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,
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B, C & E have verb error but confused between A & D
A firm ... claims <that it can assess> more than ... -- which i picked
A firm ... claims <to be able to assess> more than ... -- the right ans
I am less than a week to GMAT idea so pardon if i missed something obvious
or other way
Claims what??needs an object.
AB gone..since "from"cant be an object
E "Being" is almost always incorrect
Left with C and D
Here "able to " or "ability to" a popular idiom or reading instinct can help
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A clearly can't be the answer as it distorts the meaning. "from a one-page writing sample that it can assess" means, from a one-page writing, the firm can claim more than 300 personalities rather than assess .
The main idea of the sentence is, the firm can assess x from y rather than the firm can claim x from y.
The main idea of the sentence is, the firm can assess x from y rather than the firm can claim x from y.
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Would (1) have been right if the sentense was "A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims, from a one-page writing sample, that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits" ?logitech wrote:Whenever you see a pronoun such as it, its, they, their , you have to check what they refer to. ( For example use of they is wrong in this sentence )
In the first option we have IT , which is intended to refer to firm but it is too far away from the noun it refers and there are other singular nouns in between : analysis and one-page writing sample
So in written English, this IT creates an ambiguity
Note the use of commas.
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No. "from a one-page writing sample" should be inside the clause about what the firm claims it can do. Your sentence makes it sound as if their claim was written on a one-page document. However, if you switched it around, it will work:singalong wrote:Would (1) have been right if the sentense was "A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims, from a one-page writing sample, that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits" ?logitech wrote:Whenever you see a pronoun such as it, its, they, their , you have to check what they refer to. ( For example use of they is wrong in this sentence )
In the first option we have IT , which is intended to refer to firm but it is too far away from the noun it refers and there are other singular nouns in between : analysis and one-page writing sample
So in written English, this IT creates an ambiguity
Note the use of commas.
"A firm that specialized in the analysis of handwriting claims that, from a one-page writing sample, it can assess..."
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Ddeepak_tx wrote:A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
(A) from a one-page writing sample that it can assess
(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing
(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing
(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess
(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,
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B, C & E have verb error but confused between A & D
A firm ... claims <that it can assess> more than ... -- which i picked
A firm ... claims <to be able to assess> more than ... -- the right ans
I am less than a week to GMAT idea so pardon if i missed something obvious
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