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by Woozler » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:44 pm
Today's technology allows manufacturers to make small cars more fuel-efficient now than at any time in their production history

Today's technology allows manufacturers to make small cars that are more fuel-efficient than those at any other time in production history

What's wrong with sentence 1? (sentence two is correct)
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by Tani » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:30 pm
The antecedent for "their" is unclear. Is it the history of the manufacturer or the history of the car?
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by EducationAisle » Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:34 pm
Look at what sentence 1 means. Manufacturers make small cars. Those small are more fuel-efficient now than at any time in their production history. Seems to suggest that the same fuel cars are more fuel-efficient now than (the same fuel cars) were at any time in their production history. This is clearly absurd.

Sentence 2 circumvents this problem by saying:

Small cars that are more fuel-efficient than those (fuel cars) at any other time in production history.

So, this is logically comparing fuel cars today with fuel cars of the past.
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