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A firm that spcializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, incluiding 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,


D it is.
(A) "that" should follow "claim"
(B) ability of is erroneous
(C)the same
(E) being is redundant
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OA is (D).
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I thought Claims to be able to is the correct idiom. So are you folks saying Claims to be ....... able to is also correct!

Is Claims being able to - outright wrong?

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I guess 'Claims to' is the correct idiom and not 'Claims to be able to' as I had previously assumed.

Now my question is, can we split
'able to X' to
'able ....... to X' as in
'able, from a one-page writing, to access'

This is what made me reject D. Am I making sense?
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A,B is out, suggests firm is claiming from the sample
C, is out. You cannot claim from an ability. C also has a very awkward sentence structure.
E is out. being is wrong.

(D) is the best choice. Although I would prefer it to be "to be able to assess, from a one-page..."



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