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.
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
而对于E,不定式与分词结构不同,前面由逗号隔开,就没有了做定语的功能,而是只能做状语的。 就算去掉了逗号,to do紧接essential items of military equipment,逻辑上还是没有protecting好,现在分词protecting是说明固有的、一直存在的功能,而to do是说明“具体某次”的功能。
而对于E,不定式与分词结构不同,前面由逗号隔开,就没有了做定语的功能,而是只能做状语的。 就算去掉了逗号,to do紧接essential items of military equipment,逻辑上还是没有protecting好,现在分词protecting是说明固有的、一直存在的功能,而to do是说明“具体某次”的功能。
而对于E,不定式与分词结构不同,前面由逗号隔开,就没有了做定语的功能,而是只能做状语的。 就算去掉了逗号,to do紧接essential items of military equipment,逻辑上还是没有protecting好,现在分词protecting是说明固有的、一直存在的功能,而to do是说明“具体某次”的功能。
PS,对3楼的说法提供些更详细的佐证,贴下OG11-24里面关于E的解释:The infinitive to protect cannot act as an adjective modifying items; the participial form of the verb, protecting, is required.