Exercise 4

Underscore all the verbs and verb phrases in the following quotation.

Write all the time forms of the transitive verb, _lose_, as the time

forms of the verb _see_ are written in the foregoing table.

When we study the animal world and try to explain to ourselves that

struggle for existence which is maintained by each living being

against adverse circumstances and against its enemies, we realize that

the more the principles of solidarity and equality are developed in an

animal society, and have become habitual to it, the more chance it has

of surviving and coming triumphantly out of the struggle against

hardships and foes. The more thoroughly each member of the society

feels his solidarity with each other member of the society, the more

completely are developed in all of them those two qualities which are

the main factors of all progress; courage, on the one hand, and, on

the other, free individual initiative. And, on the contrary, the more

any animal society, or little group of animals, loses this feeling of

solidarity--which may chance as the result of exceptional scarcity or

else of exceptional plenty--the more the two other factors of

progress, courage and individual initiative, diminish; in the end they

disappear, and the society falls into decay and sinks before its foes.

Without mutual confidence no struggle is possible; there is no

courage, no initiative, no solidarity--and no victory!--_Kropotkin_.

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