Is the underlined participial phrase correctly placed or misplaced?

Continuing to read the newspaper, my father ignored the ringing telephone.

A.
correctly placed participial phrase

B.
misplaced participial phrase

Question

Is the underlined participial phrase correctly placed or misplaced? 

Continuing to read the newspaper, my father ignored the ringing telephone.
 
 A.
correctly placed participial phrase
 
 B.
misplaced participial phrase

anonymous · Answer

Kaylee_td

kaylee_td · Answer

Hi there! 
What is underlined?
Any guesses?

anonymous · Answer

Continuing to read the newspaper

anonymous · Answer

b

kaylee_td · Answer

Prepositional phrase- A word group consisting of a present participle (also known as an -ing form) or past participle (also known as an -en form), plus any modifiers, objects, and complements.

kaylee_td · Answer

So, I would say A. (ContinuING to read the newspaper)

kaylee_td · Answer

Hope I could help :)