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.
OG-30 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 (正确答案)
(D) as a protection of
(E) to protect
首先关于你的问题,后面的不是非限制性定语。而是V-ing结构修饰的是整个主系表结构,补充说明主句含义。
1:按照你的理解如果是非限制性定语从句的话。那么method需要修饰就近的noun。也就是items。一种方法和一个系统设备这两项并不match。你仔细看下OG针对ABD的解释。都是因为ABD错将后面句子当成item的非限制性定语从句。一种方法和item并列。因此显得awkward and inaccurate。
2:关于Ving的用法。关于这个题目简单来讲,本题目也是第三种用法的体现。
A)逻辑主语=句子主语,此时表伴随动作
B)逻辑主语=主句全句,此时表结果状语
C)前方为主系表结构,不表伴随、不表结果,只是对前句的补充说明。说明我们要装备这些item的原因。
3:关于这个题目。我建议在用结构排除选项的同时。也可按照作者真正要表达的意图来辨析。method解释的是“animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment”这整个句子的原因。而不单单是item。这种状况下,用Ving最能准确表达作者含义。而不是单单解释前句的一个部分。