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Broadway musical Cats

by vikram4689 » Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:16 am
Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and translated into 20 languages, including Hungarian, German, and Czech, the 7,485th and final New York performance of the Broadway musical Cats was on September 10th, 2000.

(A)
including Hungarian, German, and Czech, the 7,485th and final New York performance of the Broadway musical Cats was on September 10th, 2000

(B)
that include Hungarian, German, and Czech, the 7,485th show, on September 10th, 2000, was the last for the Broadway musical Cats in New York

(C)
including Hungarian, German, and Czech, the New York performances of the Broadway musical Cats ended on September 10th, 2000 with its 7,485th show

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to include Hungarian, German, and Czech, the Broadway musical Cats had its 7,485th and final New York performance on September 10th, 2000

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including Hungarian, German, and Czech, the Broadway musical Cats had its 7,485th and final New York performance on September 10th, 2000
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by Kasia@EconomistGMAT » Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:57 am
The original sentence (answer A) is incorrect because it sounds as if the 7485th performance of Cats was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The modifier "written by A.L.Webber" should be directly next to the subject "the Broadway musical Cats."
Answers B and C are also incorrect because they contain the original mistake.
Answer D does not contain the original problem with the wrongly formulated subject and dangling modifier but the form "to include" is incorrect. The right form would be "including" or "that include," as proposed in the prior answers.
Answer E is CORRECT.
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by vikram4689 » Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:08 am
Kasia@MasterGMAT wrote:The original sentence (answer A) is incorrect because it sounds as if the 7485th performance of Cats was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The modifier "written by A.L.Webber" should be directly next to the subject "the Broadway musical Cats."
Answers B and C are also incorrect because they contain the original mistake.
Answer D does not contain the original problem with the wrongly formulated subject and dangling modifier but the form "to include" is incorrect. The right form would be "including" or "that include," as proposed in the prior answers.
Answer E is CORRECT.
for that very same reason i chose A. i suppose "Broadway musical cats" is a group that conducts shows/performances and sentence says that a particular performance of the group was scripted/written by Webber. based on that logic E does not make sense.

what is wrong in my interpretation
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