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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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claims is an idiom to be followed by to be..

D is the answer imo..


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Neochronic wrote:
claims is an idiom to be followed by to be..

D is the answer imo..


I choose option D as well. I can also add that they're testing another idiom. "ability" is always followed by "to."


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vannu 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,

Please explain


I think D sounds pretty good, though the comma fragment is a bit out of place.


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vannu 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,

Please explain


Does the underlined part start from the word "from"?

(D) is the best of the lot, however it still sounds akward. What is the source of this question and the OA?


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  Re: analysis of handwriting claims [#permalink]
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OA is C

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vannu wrote:
OA is C


OA is option D

to be able ...to assess


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OA is indeed D. Check out this thread where it was previously discussed:

sc-1000-handwriting-63043.html#p459801


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I am sorry. The OA is D. Thanks for the correction.

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D. The official answer explanation is quite congruent with my though process.

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