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25 Apr 2019, 02:28
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Unless a sentence has a lot of redundant items, we should not expect to be able to remove words from it without losing meaning.
Also, even if we're looking just to understand the structure of the sentence, we should not apply the "remove the portion in between commas" recommendation blindly. For example, in this case, the ailing mobster came to take refuge in Corleone contains the actual subject and verb (the ailing mobster and came). If we remove them, we won't be left with a sentence at all!
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According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, the ailing mobster came to take refuge in Corleone, a town famous because of the “The Godfather” and near to those he most trusted.
I wish to make a small observation about the use of commas in a sentence.
According to Italy's top anti-mafia prosecutor - the introductory modifier
the ailing mobster came to take refuge in Corleone-- The Main clause with its subject and verb.
a town famous because of the “The Godfather” and near to those he most trusted -- An appositive modifier describing the town Corleone.
When a sentence starts with an introductory modifier, such as "According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor" we generally set it off by a comma. Therefore, the comma belongs to the initial modifier and not to what follows. Because the last part is a modifier, we again set it off from the main sentence by a comma. This is necessitated only because of the subsequent modifier and the comma, in fact, belongs to the modifier.
Thus, we can see that what is seemingly contained within two commas is indeed not so. There is no need to try to remove the main clause, thinking that it is a modifier.
I wish to make a small observation about the use of commas in a sentence.
According to Italy's top anti-mafia prosecutor - the introductory modifier
the ailing mobster came to take refuge in Corleone-- The Main clause with its subject and verb.
a town famous because of the “The Godfather” and near to those he most trusted -- An appositive modifier describing the town Corleone.
When a sentence starts with an introductory modifier, such as "According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor" we generally set it off by a comma. Therefore, the comma belongs to the initial modifier and not to what follows. Because the last part is a modifier, we again set it off from the main sentence by a comma. This is necessitated only because of the subsequent modifier and the comma, in fact, belongs to the modifier.
Thus, we can see that what is seemingly contained within two commas is indeed not so. There is no need to try to remove the main clause, thinking that it is a modifier.
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Official Explanation
The original sentence is correct. "Famous because of 'The Godfather'"and "near to those he most trusted" correctly modify "a town," which modifies Corleone. Noun modifiers must be next to the nouns that they describe. This choice contains no other errors.
(A) CORRECT. This answer choice is correct as it repeats the original sentence.
(B) This choice contains a modification error; "famous because of 'The Godfather'” incorrectly describes the prosecutor. Noun modifiers modify the closest available noun.
(C) This choice contains a modification error; "famous because of 'The Godfather'" incorrectly describes the mobster. Noun modifiers modify the closest available noun.
(D) This choice contains a modification error; "near to those he most trusted" incorrectly describes the prosecutor. Noun modifiers modify the closest available noun.
(E) The modification is correct in this choice. "Famous because of 'The Godfather'" correctly modifies "Corleone". However, this sentence is unnecessarily wordy, "was the town that the ailing mobster came to take refuge in" is much less concise than "the ailing mobster came to take refuge in Corleone" without making the meaning clearer.
The "According to" part modifies this main clause to tell us the source of the information. The "a town" part is a non-essential modifier that provides information about the town. 
