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 OG 12: the underlined part begins a phrase describing items of military equipment
OG 10: C is best because the participle protecting begins a phrase that explains what the shields did
一个认为是修饰 shields ,一个认为修饰items of military equipment。
其实是一样的。前面是主系表结构,后面的现在分词短语作adj.修饰的是前面整个事物。 而animal-hide shields with wooden frames = essential items of military equipment,所以"描述shields" 、"解释items" 哪个说法都是一样的。