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OG# 39

by coolvishu11 » Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:14 pm
39. 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

Please can you explain why it isC
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Re: OG# 39

by thetrystero » Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:20 pm
coolvishu11 wrote:39. 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
@coolvishu11, please use spoiler tags for the OA.

A,B: "method of protecting" sounds redundant to me.
E would've been OK if there were no comma after "equipment"
D sounds wordy
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