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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
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I dont see any method in the sentence. A & B out
No need to use as. We don't have viewed X as Y or Used X as Y scenario
protecting is clear as it modifies the Animal shields
My pick C
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I think E should be the correct answer as we have to use an infinitive here goalsnr 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
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IMO C , however E might have been correct if that comma was not there. any thoughts on that?
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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
Shields are not methods....kung fu is a method :D
B. as a method protecting
Shields are not methods....kung fu is a method :D
C. protecting
they do not protect them now....it was in the 17th century.
D. as a protection of
Awkward use
E. to protect
Correct
lol...I got this correct earlier on...and forgot about my fundamentls...damn....here's the reasoing from my previous post...
"Honestly it took me more than a minute to answer this. Here's my reasoning
I chose C
D was the first option that i eliminated as
, as a protection of what?? warriors ??....well we never say as a protection of who...do we?? .....nonetheless both are not idiomatic...
A and B were out because weapons are forms of self - defense and not ways/methods of self-defense. We can say Karate is method but do we say knife/gun is a method??....errrr no...
I got stuck with E, cause 'to protect someone' is grammatically correct , such as 'I want you to protect him', but the issue now comes down to modifiers. So in our previous example we would not go about writing 'I want you, to protect him' but the usage of 'x, protecting him' where protecting modifies x is the right usage. Trust me the ',' makes the difference here.... "
Its C guys!!!
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goalsnr 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 IMO C is the correct answer here the issue with usage of E emanates from the fact that it will commit a modifier error here is how "Military equipments" to protect i think this is an OG problem
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OA is C.
here is my explanation:
This SC is in the form of DC,IC,DC
"a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears "- is a sentence that can standby itself. We convert the independent clause
to a subordinate clause by adding "participle" -"protecting"
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