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pradeepkaushal9518: Legendary Member; Posts: 1309; Joined: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:41 pmFollowed by: 5 members; Thanked: 33 times

by pradeepkaushal9518 » Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:25 am

If you are so worried about contracting diabetes that you are losing sleep, perhaps you should learn more about your ability to prevent the disease with a proper diet.

learn more about your ability to prevent the disease

learn more about your ability of preventing it

learn more about your ability of preventing the disease

learn more about your capacity of preventing it

learn more about your ableness to prevent it

A or B?

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gmatmachoman: Legendary Member; Posts: 2326; Joined: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:54 amFollowed by: 2 members; Thanked: 173 times; GMAT Score:710

by gmatmachoman » Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:54 am

"to prevent" is the idiom!

Pick A

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by deepak_free » Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:35 am

I feel ability to is the idiom

Anyways the answer remains same

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by this_time_i_will » Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:03 am

Moreover, ability of VERBing is wrong

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by gmatmachoman » Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:06 am

deepak_free wrote:I feel ability to is the idiom

Anyways the answer remains same

yeah ....it should have been "ability to"...agreed

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by 786 » Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:10 am

Agreed , A is the best choice .
But Is there anything wrong with D ?

capacity of preventing ? Is it unidiomatic ?

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by loveusonu » Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:25 am

786 wrote:Agreed , A is the best choice .
But Is there anything wrong with D ?

capacity of preventing ? Is it unidiomatic ?

Yep, "capability of ____ing" and "capability in ____ing" are both unidiomatic.

Only exception to this is rule is when ___ing part is a adjective followed by noun. In short it should be VERBing.

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