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p14 Ashanti nation

by real2008 » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:51 am
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


why not E?
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by ghacker » Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:16 am
Infinitive is inappropriate here

The underline part describes " shields of ...." and we need a modifier to describe shields

Also the infinitive if not driven by any primary verb

Answer : C
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Re: p14 Ashanti nation

by rahulg83 » Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:44 am
real2008 wrote: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


why not E?
Never use a infinitive (to <verb>) after a comma, participle 'protecting' is fine here, describing the role played by animal-hide shields..
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