The significance of the sentence is that the possibilities for survival are not almost non-existent.
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The definition of claim means to state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.. When you make a claim you’re demanding it or saying it’s true.
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B. noun
because an adjective is a describing word so it is not that and a verb is a movement and a conjunction is ,and but, or so the correct answer is B. noun