<span>Since everyone was scared of communism, Hollywood started making blacklists of people who weren't allowed to participate in movie making because it was feared that they would use the movies as a medium for spreading their ideological beliefs. Many actors and directors had their career's ruined because of this.</span>
This sentence, [ According to some scholars, when poorly educated people read, wrote, and spoke, they corrupted the English language] apparently shows and explains a dire need to set standards in the English language or else the language may get corrupted in no time.
Answer:
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 <em>a gold man's watch </em>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.
