BREAKING: Target Test Prep releases Brand New 2026 On Demand GMAT prep course

Redeem

One More

This topic has expert replies
Post new topic Locked
Previous Topic Next Topic
Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts
Posts: 37
Joined: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:35 am
Thanked: 4 times
GMAT Score:700

One More

by nipunranjan » Wed Aug 21, 2013 12:42 pm
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
Top
Source: — Sentence Correction |
User avatar
Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts
Posts: 283
Joined: Sun Jun 23, 2013 11:56 pm
Location: Bangalore, India
Thanked: 97 times
Followed by:26 members
GMAT Score:750

by ganeshrkamath » Wed Aug 21, 2013 9:31 pm
nipunranjan 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
I would go with C
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Kelley School of Business (Class of 2016)
GMAT Score: 750 V40 Q51 AWA 5 IR 8
https://www.beatthegmat.com/first-attemp ... tml#688494
Top
Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts
Posts: 4
Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:01 am

by rajasekaran » Wed Aug 21, 2013 9:47 pm
Answer E

using military equipment as a method of protection. It is tool for protection - Eliminate A and B
as a protection of - akward - Eliminate D
Protecting - akward - Eliminate C
Top
Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts
Posts: 39
Joined: Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:22 pm
Thanked: 1 times

by bharath2787 » Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:14 pm
i would also go with C,

comma indicates a suborndinate clause is best defined with the use of a gerund protecting which clearly modifies animal-hide shields.

However, i would go with E if there was no comma before "to protect". using to after a comma is right or wrong ??
Bharath
Top
User avatar
Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts
Posts: 358
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:46 am
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Thanked: 42 times
Followed by:7 members
GMAT Score:730

by faraz_jeddah » Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:29 am
E for me too.
A good question also deserves a Thanks.

Messenger Boy: The Thesselonian you're fighting... he's the biggest man i've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him.
Achilles: That's why no-one will remember your name.
Top
Legendary Member
Posts: 544
Joined: Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:10 am
Thanked: 45 times
Followed by:2 members

by sameerballani » Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:51 am
IMO C
OA plz?
nipunranjan 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
If my post was helpful, then please click "Thank".
Top
Post new topic Locked
• Page 1 of 1