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
问题:我知道答案选C 也明白原因
但是E选项 因为不定式to do前一般没有句号 所以这个错了而且明显没有C解释好 但是OG的解释“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.”
呃?怎么觉得我想的这么另类呢…… 不定式to do修饰名词表目的的时候都是限定性的修饰成分,如A to do B译作“用于B的A”,限定了“不是其它种类的A”,所以if it were not preceded by comma,it cannot act as a nonrestrictive adjectival phrase modifying tiems.