Choose the sentence that contains a misplaced modifier

To my mind, in the last sentence the pronoun "their" is the misplaced modifiers as its antecedent is not present in the same sentence.

Sentence b. On the court, the excited fans cheered the players is the one that contains a misplaced modifier.

Explanation:

A modifier is a word or phrase that gives further information about another word in the same sentence. The position of the modifier is very important, since this word or phrase will describe the noun next to it. In this case, the modifier is misplaced because it is modifying the excited fans -the noun next to the modifier on the court-, so the reader may misunderstand and think the fans were on the court, when the players were the ones actually on the court.

Therefore, the correct version of the sentence would be: The excited fans cheered the players on the court.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)