Which sentence contains a misplaced modifier?

[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 dangling modifier?

sentence 4

Which sentence contains a misplaced modifier?

sentence 1

Which sentence contains a troublesome modifier?

sentence 5

The answer is sentence number one.

Explanation:

Every word in a sentence has a meaning. Some of them modify the main word. Misplaced modifier is, as its name suggests, such a word modifying not the word its meant to, but a completely different word. Therefore it is misplaced in a sentence. This changes the meaning of a whole or a part of a sentence.

Having this in mind we see that phrase a gold man's watch from the first sentence has illogical meaning. So looking at this phrase we could interpret it as a watch that belongs to a gold man, which is highly unlikely. Usually a misplaced modifier is corrected by simply changing the order of the words, which means that in this case the phrase should say: man's gold watch.

Other sentences from the text do not have ambiguous meaning such this.