The phrase "ability to pluck a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the skill or talent to select or extract something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "Her ability to pluck a melody from thin air amazed everyone at the concert."
Alternatives: "skill to select a" or "talent for choosing a".
That couple keeps re-forming amid the wind-blown dancing: one of Mr. Tynek's strengths is his ability to pluck sudden formations — a line of men carrying the women like stiff dolls, trios rising from and falling back to the floor — from the swirling activity and imprint them upon the eye.
Ms. Ziegelman hasn't merely pored through old cookbooks and newspapers; she also has an admirable ability to pluck the most piquant details from them.
Their ability to pluck the very best students from an ever-deepening pool of eligible applicants has raised standards, not lowered them.
On a remote Scottish island, his ability to pluck coins from behind children's ears is better appreciated.
In a show of fiscal fortitude, Mr Obama on May 24th did formally ask for new "rescission" authority: in essence, the ability to pluck bits out of spending bills for elimination, subject only to an up-or-down vote in Congress.
So in December, Google started YouTube for Schools, offering schools the ability to pluck only the videos they want, scrubbed of all comments and linked only to other related educational videos.
But its ability to pluck heartstrings from 7 p.m. to midnight for 17 nights will be tested more than ever because the 15-hour time difference from Sydney to the Eastern time zone will give fans a half day to study results before NBC airs the events on tape.
The additional research, the ability to pluck out the most interesting bits, to weave together the complete package, is invaluable.
Cowbirds tend to pluck a single egg from the host nest, replacing it with their own.
The urge was to pluck a tissue out of the blue orb.
