A number of body guards followed the female candidate, some to hold her briefcase, some to protect her from being disturbed.?

1. 寫法很多啊! 又臭又長？ 廢字連一個都無 怎會臭長?

2. 改寫如下:

(1) A number of body guards followed the female candidate, some holding her briefcase, and some protecting her from being disturbed.

(2) The female candidate was followed by a number of body guards, holding her BC and protecting her from being disturbed.

were holding her brief case;
were protecting her.

你改成兩句句子，當然可以接納。 如果只用一句子配合分詞構句，可以這樣寫:

A number of body guards followed the female candidate, with some holding her briefcase and some protecting her from being disturbed.

** The prepositional phrase "with..." acts as adverbial telling what happened (or was happening) when the body guards followed the female candidate.

Note:
some to hold ....., some to protect. 不能看為 "獨立分詞構句" !
這樣寫會令人覺得是 "some were to hold ..." 的縮寫，"be + to" 有「將會」或「打算」的意思。
如果意思真的是護衛的安排，這樣寫:
Some were (set) to hold her briefcase and some were (set) to protect her from being disturbed.

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