For each group of sentences choose the one that uses modifiers correctly
1)we saw the raccoon rummaging through the trash can.
2)we saw the raccoon, rummaging through the trash can.
3)rummaging through the trash can , we saw the raccoon.
1)i found the raccoon family cleaning up the area
2)cleaning up the area, i found the raccoon family.
3)i found the raccoon family, cleaning up the area
1)i followed lisa as she ran around the pond on my bike.
2)i followed lisa on my bike as she ran around the pond
3)around the pond on my bike, i followed lisa as she ran.
1)i was startled by the thunder booming in the distance.
2)booming, i was startled by the thunder in the distance.
3)booming in the distance, i was startled by the thunder.
1)kate's ear detected a babbling brook flowing through the forest.
2)flowing through the forest, kate's ears detected a babbling brook
3) kate's ears, flowing through the forest, detected a babbling brook.
1)jenny stood on a rock trying to get a good view of the baby birds.
2)trying, jenny stood on a rock to get a good view of the baby birds.
3)trying to get a good view of the baby birds, jenny stood on a rock.

in english language, modifiers are words that are used to alter, change, qualify or clarify certain words in sentences. modifiers are very critical in sentence formation and they should be used appropriately in order to clearly pass across our messages. modifiers are usually adjectives or adverbs. note that, a sentence will still make a complete sense when the modifiers are remove.

in the questions given above, the sentences that use modifiers correctly are given below:

1. we saw the raccoon, rummaging through the trash can.

2. cleaning up the area, i found the raccoon family.

3. around the pond on my bike, i followed lisa as she ran.

4. i was startled by the thunder booming in the distance.

5. kate's ear detected a babbling brook flowing through the forest.

6. trying to get a good view of the baby birds, jenny stood on a rock.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.

i think that the answer is substandard.