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What needs to be done to correct the following sentence?

Queen Mary wanted her death to be remembered, therefore, she staged a pageant.

a) Remove , after therefore
b) Change , after remembered to a semicolon
c) Change , after remembered to a semicolon and add , after Mary
d) Remove , after remembered

My asnwer would be c) correct?

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