一道OG，同位语，求解答！感谢

Jackson张

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
  

我的答案：A

正确答案：C

答案解释说A这里修饰的是items ，所以单复数不符合不能选

想问的是，同位语不是就近修饰原则吗，为什么这里不是修饰的equipment而是items

以及 A of B，（同位语从句）  这样的结构，同位语到底修饰的是A还是B。。。

ai559031

這裡沒有東西可以用method做同位語

引述ＲＯＮ的話：

"a method..." can be used as that kind of modifier"”but only if the actual method is described in the sentence!

This sentence mentions only the shields, not how they were used. Shields are not "a method"; "a method" would have to describe the use of the shields.

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Jackson张

ai559031 发表于 2017-8-2 19:30
這裡沒有東西可以用method做同位語

引述ＲＯＮ的話：

感谢！很清晰！