Question

1 on her way home from practice, rebekka found a gold man’s watch. 2 she wasn’t sure what to do. 3 there was no name engraved on the back. 4 looking at the gold links on the band, the watch seemed to rebekka to be expensive. 5 she felt badly that someone had lost such a nice watch. which sentence contains a misplaced modifier? 1 2 3 4 5

Explanation:

A misplaced modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies. In sentence 4, "Looking at the gold links on the band" is a participial phrase that should modify the subject performing the action (Rebekka), but the subject of the main clause is "the watch", which can't "look at" the links. So sentence 4 has a misplaced modifier.

Answer:

1. Looking at the gold links on the band, the watch seemed to Rebekka to be expensive.