请教大全7题

jinnuhong

Rather than continue to produce most ofthe items necessary for subsistence, a growing number of farm families duringthe first decades of the nineteenth century began to specialize in theproduction of grain or cotton and to use the cash proceeds from sellingtheir crops for buying necessities.(P9 1-2)

(A) selling theircrops for buying

(B) the sales oftheir crops for buying

(C) their sellingof crops so as to buy

(D) their sellingcrops for buying of（E）

(E) the sale oftheir crops to buy

答案我选对了, 只是began......to use cash.... to buy   中间怎么还有个动词?
proceed from something: to have a particular cause or origin
proceeds from : 不应该是proceeded from ?

wyw1018

这里的proceed是名词

jinnuhong

noun  
proceeds.
a. something that results or accrues.

b. the total amount derived from a sale or other transaction: The proceeds from the deal were divided equally among us.  

c. the profits or returns from a sale, investment, etc.


我找过 Marriam Webster & Oxford Dictionary 都没看到有名词词性,  终于在一个online dictionary 找到了名词解释

- 销售农作物的现金所得