Which group of words in the sentence is misplaced?

Having been discovered, Rover looked up at his owner with puppy-dog eyes.

a. with puppy-dog eyes
b. been discovered
c. his owner
d. Rover looked up

with puppy dog eyes

Keep in mind that you need to keep modifiers (single words or phrases) as close to what they're modifying as possible in order to make sense.

So ask yourself ...

"Having been discovered, Rover" -- does "having been discovered" refer to Rover?

"his owner with puppy-dog eyes" -- does the owner have "puppy-dog eyes"?

Which one either doesn't make sense or seems funny??!! =) That's the one you need to fix.

his owner

To determine which group of words in the sentence is misplaced, we need to analyze the sentence structure and the meaning of each group of words.

In the given sentence, the main subject is "Rover," and the main verb is "looked up." The phrase "having been discovered" is used as an introductory participial phrase, which provides additional information about Rover. The phrase "with puppy-dog eyes" is a prepositional phrase that describes how Rover looked at his owner. The phrase "his owner" is a noun phrase that tells us who Rover looked at.

By analyzing the sentence structure and meaning, we can conclude that option c. "his owner" is misplaced.

To verify this, we can try repositioning the phrase and see if it still makes sense:
- Rover looked up at his owner with puppy-dog eyes having been discovered. (This doesn't make sense because "having been discovered" is unrelated to Rover's owner.)

Therefore, the correct answer is c. "his owner."

None of the above. The question is fallacious. In all ways the sentence is perfect. If you remove any element you lose that element's contribution to the information being conveyed. The author chose to include each of those elements as desirous to the communication and did so in a logically and grammatically correct manner.