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解释中说D中“beginning the phrase with as is incorrect”,我不理解由as开始的短语错是什么意思。是特指这道题,还是普遍真理啊?
还有说E“to protect cannot act as an adjective modifying items”,为啥就不能修饰呢?
Th 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.