17. 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
I know the answer should be C.
Here in the sentence,
“Animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment,protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.”
“protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears”
is
“animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment”
的状语。
But how to make sentence changes so that
“protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears”
is
“animal-hide shields with wooden frames”or“animal-hide shields”
的定语.
