SC's Question number - 875 , 876

875). 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

876). Too old to bear arms himself, Frederick Douglass served as a recruiting agent, traveled through the North to exhort Black men to join the Union army

(A) traveled through the North to exhort

(B) and he traveled through the North and exhorted

(C) and traveling through the North exhorted

(D) traveling through the North and exhorted

(E) traveling through the North and exhorting

Answers:

875). OA - C

A, E - incorrect - redundancy error - Today's technology..now

B - incorrect - wrongly suggests that small cars that are more fuel-efficient than they were implies that the fuel efficiency of the same cars is being compared at different times in their production history

D - incorrect - changes the meaning - More fuel-efficient small cars are currently manufactured now than ever before

876). OA - E

A - incorrect - and is needed to link the two action "served" and "traveled"

B - incorrect - repeated use of and

C, D - incorrect - violating parallelism - .....traveling...extorted....