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For members of a 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

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15 Aug 2006, 08:41

C it is.

Perfect use of dual modifiers (Initial and Terminal modifiers)
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Picking C.

http://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=29775
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15 Aug 2006, 11:35

ps_dahiya wrote:

dwivedys wrote:

IMO E is better.

E would have been better without a comma.

Thanks very much Dahiya.. I checked the original thread posted by Gaurav as well and understood the error i was making. I had in fact chosen C initially but somehow fell in the trap of assuming that PROTECTING was showing Continuous action which was incorrect.

All sorted out..thanks

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16 Aug 2006, 04:53

The answer must be (C). For a textbook explanation as to why the terminal modifier is best here check out a very similiar problem in Kaplan 800: pg 184 (#59).

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16 Aug 2006, 16:38

buzzgaurav wrote:

Picking C.

http://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=29775

That was an awesome explnation by deowl in the link...Thanks BuzzGaurav

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