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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
Guys, I need to know why the wrong choices are really wrong. Could you please explain your reasons of eliminating an answer choice in this case? I mean all the wrong choices.
I appreciate your inputs.
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shoonya wrote: 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
Guys, I need to know why the wrong choices are really wrong. Could you please explain your reasons of eliminating an answer choice in this case? I mean all the wrong choices.
I appreciate your inputs.
thanks
C.
A) a method to protect => its not a method.
B) as a method protecting => use of as wrong.
C) protecting => participal modifier - correct for me.
D) as a protection of => same as b.
E) to protect => infinitive is wrong.
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For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
Dependent clause, independent clause, participial phrase.
participial phrases are extremely important on the GMAT test. Once I knew what they were, I realized that many questions contain this structure.
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bmwhype2 wrote: For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
Dependent clause, independent clause, participial phrase.
participial phrases are extremely important on the GMAT test. Once I knew what they were, I realized that many questions contain this structure.
Just out of curiousity, what other orders are possible for the three items in order for a sentence to be GMAT-ically correct? 
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beckee529 wrote: bmwhype2 wrote: For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
Dependent clause, independent clause, participial phrase.
participial phrases are extremely important on the GMAT test. Once I knew what they were, I realized that many questions contain this structure. Just out of curiousity, what other orders are possible for the three items in order for a sentence to me GMAT-ically correct? As far as I know, they can come in any combination, bar participal phrase cannot modify dependent clause.
Participal phrase attached to the independent clause with a comma modifies a subject of the independent clause
In the example below, "protecting blah blah...." is modifying "animal-hide shields with wooden frames".
For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
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botirvoy wrote: beckee529 wrote: bmwhype2 wrote: For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
Dependent clause, independent clause, participial phrase.
participial phrases are extremely important on the GMAT test. Once I knew what they were, I realized that many questions contain this structure. Just out of curiousity, what other orders are possible for the three items in order for a sentence to me GMAT-ically correct? Participal phrase attached to the independent clause with a comma modifies a subject of the independent clause Someone should write down the rules for participial phrases... 
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bmwhype2 wrote: botirvoy wrote: beckee529 wrote: bmwhype2 wrote: For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
Dependent clause, independent clause, participial phrase.
participial phrases are extremely important on the GMAT test. Once I knew what they were, I realized that many questions contain this structure. Just out of curiousity, what other orders are possible for the three items in order for a sentence to me GMAT-ically correct? Participal phrase attached to the independent clause with a comma modifies a subject of the independent clause Someone should write down the rules for participial phrases... Analysts blamed May's sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise as well as the weather, which was colder and wetter than usual in some regions, slowing sales of barbecue grills and lawn furniture.Astronomers have theorized that the Big Bang governs the behavior of interstellar dust, particles that comprise the atoms and molecules created in the progenitive explosion and persisting in even the emptiest regions of space
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so the participial phrase (protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears) in our case modifies the independent clause (its subject) (animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment) and not the noun (military equipment). Is that correct?
-> Would the following structure be incorrect then?
For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment that protected warriors against enemy arrows and spears
What do you guys think?
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bmwhype2 wrote: For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
Dependent clause, independent clause, participial phrase.
participial phrases are extremely important on the GMAT test. Once I knew what they were, I realized that many questions contain this structure. Hi, could anyone please explain what participle phrases/clauses mean? I am not at all clear on that concept. It'll be great if anyone could help on this. Thanks.
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deepaksharma1986 wrote: bmwhype2 wrote: For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
Dependent clause, independent clause, participial phrase.
participial phrases are extremely important on the GMAT test. Once I knew what they were, I realized that many questions contain this structure. Hi, could anyone please explain what participle phrases/clauses mean? I am not at all clear on that concept. It'll be great if anyone could help on this. Thanks. Hi deepak, So participial phrases are basically -ING verb phrases that are separated with a comma (,) from the rest of the sentence.So in this case, "protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears" is the participial phrase. What is this phrase describing? Structurally, it is positioned to describe "animal-hide shields." If you're not sure, you can always flip it and read it like this: "Protecting warriors against enemy arrows, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment." Ask yourself if this makes sense. Do "shields" "protect warriors against enemy arrows"? Sure! So you know this makes sense. You can read more of a detailed explanation of this question here: http://www.gmatpill.com/practice-questi ... orrection/
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shoonya wrote: 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
Guys, I need to know why the wrong choices are really wrong. Could you please explain your reasons of eliminating an answer choice in this case? I mean all the wrong choices.
I appreciate your inputs.
thanks C, The sentence test word choice. "animal-hide shields" is not a method => eliminate A,B (D)" as a protection of" is wordy unessarilly (E):"to protect" we are not talking about the purpose so to-inf is not appropriate here.
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Answer C
what OG says that E could be correct if comma was not there. Is it universal rule that infinitives (to) cannot come just after comma?
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prasforgmat wrote: Is it universal rule that infinitives (to) cannot come just after comma? No. There are certainly possibilities where this can be done. "For lizards, organisms that inhabit the earth, to [X] is to [Y]." "For lizards, organisms that inhabit the earth, to [die] is to [leave your remains for the rest of the ecosystem]." In this example "to" is right after a comma.
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IMO C as protecting sounds correct being placed after a comma.
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talking about result without an action or event... [#permalink]
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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 Read below after you make a decision on the answer -- I see we can eliminate: 1. A and B - "animal-hide shields with wooden frames" isn't a method, but just an equipment. so, eliminated. 2. D - I guess we can accept this without a comma, so eliminated. 3. E - same as D. Still C doesn't seem to be a best fit. Of the 3 parts we have here separated by commas in this sentence, i guess last part represents a result when it started by a gerund (protecting). We need to have an action or event in the 2nd part before we talk about result. So, i am not 100% convinced. any thoughts?
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Ron said,
abstract noun can refer/modify the preceding clause. So, in A, I can understand that "a method " modify preceding clause.
A is not incorrect.
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gmatpill wrote: deepaksharma1986 wrote: bmwhype2 wrote: For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
Dependent clause, independent clause, participial phrase.
participial phrases are extremely important on the GMAT test. Once I knew what they were, I realized that many questions contain this structure. Hi, could anyone please explain what participle phrases/clauses mean? I am not at all clear on that concept. It'll be great if anyone could help on this. Thanks. Hi deepak, So participial phrases are basically -ING verb phrases that are separated with a comma (,) from the rest of the sentence.So in this case, "protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears" is the participial phrase. What is this phrase describing? Structurally, it is positioned to describe "animal-hide shields." If you're not sure, you can always flip it and read it like this: "Protecting warriors against enemy arrows, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment." Ask yourself if this makes sense. Do "shields" "protect warriors against enemy arrows"? Sure! So you know this makes sense. You can read more of a detailed explanation of this question here: http://www.gmatpill.com/practice-questi ... orrection/amazing.. Why is D wrong? 
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Though I get the right answer C, I do not know why A is wrong.
Pls, help explain.
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