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schumi_gmat wrote:A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make sense of speech.

A. it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make
B. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make
C. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, the result of this, they are unable to make
D. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words, and results in not making
E. as to hamper the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words, resulting in being unable to make


What is wrong with D?
OA B

vaishalijain7 wrote:can anybody please clear my doubt?

Bidisha800 wrote:replace lenthy phases with X and Y and we get :

.... ability of some children to distinguish X and to make Y

(B)

schumi_gmat wrote:A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make sense of speech.

A. it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make
B. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make
C. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, the result of this, they are unable to make
D. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words, and results in not making
E. as to hamper the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words, resulting in being unable to make


What is wrong with D?
OA B

goelmohit2002 wrote:

Bidisha800 wrote:replace lenthy phases with X and Y and we get :

.... ability of some children to distinguish X and to make Y

(B)

Can someone please help me in clearing the following doubts:

Doubt#1
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Can we split the infinitive "to" with ability....Manhattan gives the idiom usage as ability to....and almost all the questions that I have seen till now use the same ability to...together...

Infact Manhattan says Ability for X to do Y...

is a wrong usage....

Doubt#2
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Doesn't GMAT like the idiom as

distinguish between A and B ?

i.e. should the usage be like:

to distinguish "between" discrete sounds and words

instead of : "to distinguish discrete sounds and words"

Manhattan 4th Edition clearly say on page#152 that distinguish X and Y is a wrong usage.....

rahulg83 wrote: I think 'ability for' is incorrect, but 'ability of' X to do Y is correct. Regarding the second doubt, GMAT considers only distinguish between X and Y. But in this particular question, no choice uses this idiom. But i don't think to distinguish X and Y is ungrammatical at all. It's just that GMAT considers it incorrect.

goelmohit2002 wrote:

rahulg83 wrote: I think 'ability for' is incorrect, but 'ability of' X to do Y is correct. Regarding the second doubt, GMAT considers only distinguish between X and Y. But in this particular question, no choice uses this idiom. But i don't think to distinguish X and Y is ungrammatical at all. It's just that GMAT considers it incorrect.

Thanks Rahul. But as per Manhattan with Ability there is only one thing supported "to"

And with Distinguish only one i.e. Between...

Although the option that is the correct answer is best...

But I am really puzzled whether this infact is a acceptable usage in GMAT...and needs to be kept in Mind or we can simply forget about this question...thinking that since we in anyhow had to choose best amongst the worst and this type of idioms breaking thing will not happen in real GMAT.