True/False/Not Given

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True/False/Not Given

t.javanshir

True/False/Not Given

Hello there,

I was wondering if this IELTS question would be True/False/Not Given in your opinion. By the way, could anyone also help me with the meaning of the word "driving off of game"?

looking forward to hearing your comments.

The question: The indigenous people had been brutally killed by the European colonists.

The relevant part in the passage: Native American resistance to the Europeans was ineffective. Indigenous peoples suffered from white brutality, alcoholism, the killing and driving off of game, and the expropriation of farmland, but all these together are insufficient to explain the degree of their defeat.

12 Aug 2018

yanogator

I would say "not given"

To drive animals off means to scare them away.

Game means wild animals that are hunted for food, as opposed to farm animals that are raised for food. The Europeans scared away the animals that the indigenous peoples had hunted as their source of meat.

Bruce

12 Aug 2018

t.javanshir

Thanks Bruce.

Although I knew game meant animals hunted for food, I didn �t understand the reason for using "of" after "driving off"

And I agree with you regarding "not given."

12 Aug 2018

yanogator

The "of" there is the same as in "the expropriation of farmland".

13 Aug 2018

kwsp

I agree with Bruce �s definition of "driving off of game." I looked up why of is used before game and found this explanation on the BRITISH COUNCIL WEB SITE

13 Aug 2018

yanogator

Thanks, kwsp, but I don �t think that page deals with this usage of "of". This "of" follows a gerund to form a phrase that acts as a noun.

The Europeans drove off the game.

The Europeans were responsible for driving off the game. Here "the game" is the direct object of "driving off".

The Europeans were responsible for the driving off of the game. Because of the addition of "the" before the gerund, now "of the game" modifies "the driving", so I guess that makes it an adjectival application of the prepositional phrase "of the game".

Before running the race, the horses were restless.

Before the running of the race, the horses were restless.

Dunking Oreo cookies in milk is a time-honored US tradition.

The dunking of Oreo cookies in milk is a time-honored US tradition.

Bruce

13 Aug 2018