Bismarck wrote:
A 1994 biography reveals that the early years of Josephine Baker's life were so miserable they created the desire of the singer for fleeing her Missouri home and family, the result was, to become a star of the jazz age.
I am going with B. Here's my attempt:
(A) they created the
desire of the singer for fleeing her Missouri home and family and, the result was, to become
Expl: desire of the singer is wordy. It can be shortened to
singer's desire without losing any meaning. A, D, and E are out!
Also,
noun for doing smth is very often less good than
noun to do smth. A and E have that.
(B) that they created the singer's desire to flee her Missouri home and family and, as a result, to become
Expl:No problem with that. The
to become-infinitive acts as a role. Therefore the modifier
as a result is fine here.
Also, the parallel structure of
to flee and
to become is correct.
(C) that they created the singer's desire to flee her Missouri home and family and,
the result of this, she became
Expl:the result of this modifies
she. But
she isnt the result. C is out.
(D) that they created the
desire of the singer to flee her Missouri home and family,
and resulted in becoming
Expl:incorrect for the same reason as A. Also,
and resulted needs an antecedent. But what is the antecedent? sounds like it is years? out!
(E) as to create the
desire of the singer for fleeing her Missouri home and family, resulting in her becoming
Expl:incorrect for the same reason as A.
Feel free to correct me if im wrong.