The football team, tired after four hours of practice and

The football team, tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut.

A. tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. -----and wanted to reach home is not participial modifier in this context. It is an IC and hence the modifier //ism is distorted.


B. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, took a short cut. ---= modifier now is ok with the present participle replacing the past tense verb --- correct choice.

C. tired after four hours of practice and because they wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut.
---- Ed modifier and sub-clause distort the modifier //ism.

D. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, will take a short cut. ---- will take is a wrong tense logically for an event that gives the inkling of a past event. But it is arguable that being tired is a present phenomenon and the taking the short cut in the future is plausible. But the use of the verb will take looks a bit on the extreme

E. tiring after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly took a short cut.--- The absence of the comma after quickly, iis wrong //ism ;