The phrase "able to switch a" is not complete and lacks context, making it unclear in written English.
You can use it when discussing the capability to change or alternate something, but it needs to be part of a fuller sentence for clarity.
Example: "She is able to switch a setting on the device to improve its performance."
Alternatives: "capable of changing a" or "able to alter a".
To provide equal access, a switching office needs to be able to switch a call to more than one long-distance trunk.
Jason Allnut, a vice president of Fannie Mae, which buys mortgages from lenders and resells them to investors, said that even servicing companies that cannot revise loan terms might be able to switch a borrower to a completely new mortgage.
The inordinately talented Stephen Graham was the one moving things along as the all-seeing CCTV operator, high in his castle, able to switch a city's cameras around to see his ex-wife, his daughter, his best pal.
With a dVG/dt rate of 1×108 V/s, the normally-off P-VJFET is able to switch a drain current density of 100 A/cm2 with a turn-on time of 24 ns and a turn-off time of 40 ns.
In that event the Germans would be able to switch a large block of their forces either to the Italian or North African fronts, or, worse still, to launch them against Britain". He adds, "Besides, I was no longer the uncertain youth caught in a skilful trap as had happened in l937 [when he was recruited].
Their approach was able to switch a node to sleep mode within 20 sec.
PLZT high-speed optical switches are able to switch an optical signal at nano-second speed (<5 10 ns).
Last week, President Obama loosened the rules on his mortgage-refinancing program so that borrowers who are current in their payments, but lack home equity, may be able to switch to a loan with a lower interest rate.
And they were able to switch between a narrow and a wide beam.
The possibility that it might form a dynamic structure able to switch between a two-stranded coiled-coil and an open conformation consisting of two separate α-helical strands has been proposed for vertebrate vimentin [ 26].
However, because of Princeton's encouragement to explore, I was able to switch into a department that was a better match for my academic interests.
