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For memebers 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.
b. as a method protecting
c. protecting
d. as protection of
e. to protect
please explain.
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Re: SC- Ashanti nation [#permalink]
22 May 2006, 20:23
shampoo wrote: For memebers 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.
b. as a method protecting
c. protecting
d. as protection of
e. to protect
please explain.
I think it's C.
'animal-hide shields with wooden frames' can not be referred as method.
Regards,
Brajesh
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Re: SC- Ashanti nation [#permalink]
22 May 2006, 20:50
b14kumar wrote: shampoo wrote: For memebers 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.
b. as a method protecting
c. protecting
d. as protection of
e. to protect
please explain. I think it's C. 'animal-hide shields with wooden frames' can not be referred as method. Regards, Brajesh just like the statement above, the 'animal hide shields..' is a weapon.
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Will go with E here.
Animal hide shields were considered essential to protect warriors.
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C is the best choice.
A,B --> 'method' is redundant
D --> 'of' is wrong
E --> to infinitive not appropriate here
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Yep .. by process of elimination .. c is the best choice .. its not a method (A and B), of is definitely not making any sense (D)...to is not needed and improper (E)..thus C..
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No doubt , C it is
E is wrong, since the comma breaks the clause and introduces the modifier. Hence the infinitive to protect could be used to
show the intention of something given in the clause, which is obviously not the case here.
Moreover, if to protect were used to modify the adjective essential , it should be used as close to it as possible othervise
it could be considered a misplaced modifier. So even if you omit the comma, using to protect after the word equipment is grammatically incorrect.
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deowl wrote: No doubt , C it is
E is wrong, since the comma breaks the clause and introduces the modifier. Hence the infinitive to protect could be used to
show the intention of something given in the clause, which is obviously not the case here.
Moreover, if to protect were used to modify the adjective essential , it should be used as close to it as possible othervise
it could be considered a misplaced modifier. So even if you omit the comma, using to protect after the word equipment is grammatically incorrect.
Wow!! 
What an explaination.
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OA is C.
thanks for the explanation deowl.
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