participial phrase placement [duplicate]

In a grammar test I did, the following sentence was to be corrected:

"I first spotted the turtle playing tag in the yard."

It clearly contains a misplaced modifier. The correction suggested was to place the participial phrase at the beginning of the sentence ("Playing tag in the yard, I first spotted the turtle"). Could you, instead, place a comma after turtle?

"I first spotted the turtle, playing tag in the yard."

Based on what I've read about the placement of participial phrases, there's nothing wrong with it, but it looks and sounds strange to me. "I first spotted the turtle while I was playing tag in the yard" seems preferable to me.

Solution 1:

I prefer 'I first spotted the turtle while I was playing tag in the yard' as well. However, I reckon you can think of 'While playing tag in the yard, I first spotted the turtle.' as an alternative way for conveying the original meaning of your sentence to your audience that possibly may help neutralize the strangeness and indirectness of the second sentence that you have mentioned above to be grammatically correct without moving around or changing some of its words.

:) :) :)