<p>It's either this question or me having a brain fart.... </p>
<p>This is from the college board official sat study guide(blue book) </p>
<p>Practice test 1 section 6 number 25</p>
<p>AS their brains MATURE NEUROLOGICALLY , infants become more capable TO DISTINGUISH the shapes and textures AROUND THEM. </p>
<p>The answer is c
Would you correct this by changing to distinguish to of distinguishing? </p>
<p>Why is c right, and how would you correct it.</p>
<p>Try “at distinguishing”</p>
<p>’ of distinguishing’ is correct according to answer explanation of BB practice tests given by Collegeboard.</p>
<p>Yeah wrong idiom. You should have gotten that one just on how weird it sounded.</p>
<p>“Capable of” is proper idiom.</p>
<p>I am also having a hard time with that as well! D:</p>
<p>Nevermind what I said. I reread it and it’s “capable of” because capable is already a verb. So why add “to”? That would just be wrong. I thinkkkkk</p>
<p>@specific where are the answer explanations in the BB?</p>
<p>@ GHill33 … answer explanations for both editions of blue book is on the collegeboard website.
Click on my organizer and you will see. Even I didn’t see it until a month ago because collegeboard has kept it in such an inconspicuous place.</p>
<p>‘of distinguishing is correct’… problem with idioms</p>