How does paragraph 19 affect the development of the story?

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.

John asks mond why they have to have whole groups of identical deltas. why not make everyone an alpha plus like bernard and helmholtz? are you satisfied with mond’s answer?

Identify the participle or infinitive phrase in the sentence below