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by patanjali.purpose » Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:27 am
OG12- 30 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

I wonder why is A wrong here: IS "animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment" NOT A METHOD?

Could anyone help with an example in which use of A METHOD is correct. I am not able to understand how A METHOD is wrong here.
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by GMATGuruNY » Sun Feb 10, 2013 12:01 pm
patanjali.purpose wrote:OG12- 30 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

I wonder why is A wrong here: IS "animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment" NOT A METHOD?

Could anyone help with an example in which use of A METHOD is correct. I am not able to understand how A METHOD is wrong here.
Here, were serves to express the STATE-OF-BEING of the animal-hide shields: they WERE essential items.
A method is a PROCEDURE for accomplishing something.
A state-of-being is NOT a method.
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by EducationAisle » Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:12 pm
patanjali.purpose wrote: Could anyone help with an example in which use of A METHOD is correct.
While an official example did not immediately come to mind, the following should illustrate how "method" can be used.

The forming of mud or clay into bricks, a method to build solid walls, is very extensively used.

As Mitch states, "method" would typically be a procedure. In the above example, "The forming of mud or clay into bricks" is the "method" that is being referred to.
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by sana.noor » Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:43 pm
clearly this question has MEANING issue
remember after a comma u cannot use infinitive so E is out.
"A Method" is used after a comma means that their must be a procedure described before the comma. But question isnt describing any preocedure or any method but simply telling that animal hide shields were essential and why it is essential cuz it protects. Thus A and B are out. we are left with C and D. C is the only right option because it uses ing-form of verb after the comma "protecting" that modifies why animal hide shields were essential.
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