The following sentence uses which principal part of the verb?
we do our homework at the table.

a. past
b. present
c. present participle
d. past participle

The following sentence uses which principal part of the verb?

B. Present

The sentence contains a verb in the present tense form: "do".

The sentence written in past form would be: We did our homework at the table. Did is the past form of do.

The sentence written in present participle would be: We have been doing our homework at the table. Adding have been + the verb in ing.

The sentence written in past participle would be: We have done our homework at the table.  Adding have + verb in the past participle form.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

c. to depict the cunningness of the federal soldiers