Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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104 S.Ct. 2229, 2232, 81 L.Ed.2d 59 (1984). A federal court defining the role of a state official for purposes of determining liability under § 1983 must look to state law. Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati, 475 U.S. 469, 484, 106 S.Ct. 1292, 1300-1301, 89 L.Ed.2d 452 (1986). As explained above, a sheriff or his deputies are state executive officers under the Constitution of the State of Alabama. Ala. Const., art. V, § 112. “Suits against these officials in their official capacities are effectively suits against the entity that those officials represent.” Free v. Granger, 887 F.2d 1552, 1557 (11th Cir.1989). Consequently, in the present case, the § 1983 claim against Deputy Sheriff Hancock, as a state officer, makes the State of Alabama a real party in interest. See Free, 887 F.2d at 1557. . “The eleventh amendment to the Constitution
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that a  1983 action against a sheriff made the state of alabama a real party in interest
B. holding that a party does not automatically qualify as a real party in interest merely because it has been named as a defendant in a declaratory judgment action
C. holding that alabama law per mits foreign corporations to lend money to residents of alabama and to take security for such loans in the form of mortgages on real property located within the state and to enforce such obligations in the courts of alabama
D. holding that when a state sues on behalf of its residents without a sovereign or quasisovereign interest it is only a nominal party and thus not the real party in interest
E. recognizing that a narrow reading of missouri would suggest that the state is the real party in interest for diversity purposes only when the relief sought inures to the benefit of the state alone but noting that cases have only required a real interest pecuniary or otherwise in the outcome of the litigation
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.