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Re: According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, the ailing [#permalink]
A is correct. All the other sentences change the original meaning.

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Originally posted by ColumbiaDream on 12 Sep 2007, 23:06.
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Re: According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, the ailing [#permalink]
i think its C..
A conveys that the town was famous because of the godfather which is wrong. mobster can be famous as godfather and not the town.
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Re: According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, the ailing [#permalink]
My thinking in ruling out E was that " According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutror" needs to follow " the ailing mobster". Instead it modifies the town, Corleone .
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Re: According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, the ailing [#permalink]
I think E is wrong because of the tense of the sentence.
"Corleone" WAS the town that the ailing mobster WENT to. I dont think CAME to is right since WAS is in the past tense.
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Re: According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, the ailing [#permalink]
A is clear and concise.

I think the flaw with E is passive voice plus the noun 'carolene' is separated from its verb, is the town, unnecessarily.
when A provides a better option, why to go for twisted sentence as in E.
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Re: According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, the ailing [#permalink]
I chnaged from C to A

Guess, famous because of...and near to ... modifying Carolena
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Re: According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, the ailing [#permalink]
MGMAT says that both A and E are correct. No grammatical errors. A is simply shorter than E.

So go for brevity.



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