Naptiste wrote:
I had another way of approaching this question:
In my opinion there is another way to eliminate both A) and E), as the use of "now" is clearly redundant. Indeed, "
Today's technology allows manufacturers to make" does not require a
"now" as it is already indicated by
"today".
That eliminates A and E, so we are left with B, C, and D.
The other answers are all about parallelism and meaning:
D "those" refer to "small fuel-efficient cars", which does not make sense as we are comparing today's small cars to the past's small cars.
B is very subtile, but B compares the same small cars that changed over time apparently; it does not make sense, "those" is needed to create distance.
What do you guys think ?
I think this is a very hard and interesting question, and the argument for "now", which should not be followed by "any time" as "now" is included in "any time" right also in my opinion.karthikb wrote:
Today's technology allows manufacturers to make small cars more fuel-efficient now than at any time in their production history.
(A) small cars more fuel-efficient now than at any time in their
(B) small cars that are more fuel-efficient than they were at any time in their
(C) small cars that are more fuel-efficient than those at any other time in
(D) more fuel-efficient small cars than those at any other time in their
(E) more fuel-efficient small cars now than at any time in
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Naptiste,
We hope this finds you well.
Having gone through the question and your query, we believe that we can help resolve your doubts.
In Options A and E, the error is not of redundancy, as such. The error is that these answer choices try to convey the meaning by comparing the time periods "now" and "any other time in their production history", leading to incorrect or incoherent meanings.
Please remember, redundancy is the last factor that one should consider when eliminating answer choices. Only once you have confirmed multiple answer choices to be grammatically correct and correct in terms of meaning should you consider redundancy, in order to differentiate among the error-free answer choices.
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