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 答案是C 请问E如何错?关于OG的解释我不是很能理解........
A A method to protect is awkward and inaccurate in reference to items. B Th e singular method should not refer to the plural items; as a method protecting is awkward and not idiomatic. C Correct. In this sentence, protecting properly introduces a modifying phrase revealing the purpose of the items. D Th e prepositional phrase as a protection of warriors is awkward and imprecise; using the noun form protection creates wordiness and is awkward in reference to items. E Although the infi nitive to protect would work if it were not preceded by a comma, it cannot act as a nonrestrictive adjectival phrase modifying items