The term that describe the given statement "man kept a close eye on the toddler sitting on a bench and smoking a cigar" is misplaced modifiers, option D is correct.
What is a misplaced modifiers?
It should be noted that from the sentence above, the modifier is placed too far from the word it modifies.
A modifier that is positioned too far away from the word or words it modifies is said to be misplaced. The statement is difficult and even unintentionally funny due to misplaced modifiers. A grammatical modifier that may be mistakenly understood to be connected to a word other than the one intended is known as a "dangling modifier."
complete question;
The man kept a close eye on the toddler sitting on a bench and smoking a cigar
a. run on sentence
b. fragment
c. non-paralelelism
d. misplaced modifiers