Help!!! OG Sentence correction.

Nidhs · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:30 pm Post subject: Help!!! OG Sentence correction.

For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and
spears.

(A) a method to protect

(B) as a method protecting

(C) protecting

(D) as a protection of

(E) to protect
OA is (C)...but i can't understand why. Can someone please explain

solaris · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject:

What was your answer pick?

A 'shield' is not a 'method' - agreed? so, A and B are out.

'As a protection of' is completely ungrammatical, so strike D out.

Choice E, the 'to protect' form following a comma isn't correct either.

Therefore, answer is C.

Nidhs · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject:

my choice was (E)

solaris · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

right, unless i'm mistaken it was the placement of the comma that made E incorrect.