What does the pronoun "it" on the last line of this paragraph indicate?
But even if parental stimulation is inhibited, the baby’s physical drive to exchange cannot be extinguished. By the second year of life, all infants begin noticing and imitating what others do; learning about physical objects also speeds up, particularly about the size and weight of things, as well as their physical dangers. The social capacity to cooperate together on a common project, like building a snowman, becomes well established in toddlers by the third year of life: young children will do it, even if parental behaviour does not encourage it.

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1) What does the pronoun "it" on the last line of this paragraph indicate? Does It refer to "cooperate together"?
(young children will do it, even if parental behaviour does not encourage it.)

2)How do I have to understand the part "their physical dangers"?

Question

What does the pronoun "it" on the last line of this paragraph indicate?
But even if parental stimulation is inhibited, the baby’s physical drive to exchange cannot be extinguished. By the second year of life, all infants begin noticing and imitating what others do; learning about physical objects also speeds up, particularly about the size and weight of things, as well as their physical dangers. The social capacity to cooperate together on a common project, like building a snowman, becomes well established in toddlers by the third year of life: young children will do it, even if parental behaviour does not encourage it.

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1) What does the pronoun "it" on the last line of this paragraph indicate? Does It refer to "cooperate together"?  
(young children will do it, even if parental behaviour does not encourage it.)

2)How do I have to understand the part "their physical dangers"?

Answer

Hi Terry,
1. You are correct, the "it" is referring to the "social capacity...common project".
2. The "physical dangers" is in reference to "learning about physical objects" and any risks associated with the young child's interaction with their new discoveries.

Hope this helps.

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