Question

4 read the passage from mark twains the adventures of tom sawyer. click to highlight sentences that contain all four parts of speech. the summer evenings were long. it was not dark, yet. presently tom checked his whistle. a stranger was before him—a boy a shade larger than himself. a new - comer of any age or either sex was an im - pressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of st. petersburg. this boy was well dressed, too—well dressed on a week - day. this was simply astounding. his cap was a dainty thing, his close - buttoned blue cloth roundabout was new and natty, and so were his pantaloons. he had shoes on—and it was only friday. he even wore a necktie, a bright bit of ribbon. he had a citified air about him that ate into toms vitals. the more tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his nose at his finery and the shabbier and shabbier his own outfit seemed to him to grow. neither boy spoke. if one moved, the other moved—but only sidewise, in a circle; they kept face to face and eye to eye all the time.

Explanation:

To find sentences with four parts of speech, we need to identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs etc. in sentences. Analyzing the text sentence - by - sentence for these elements.

Answer:

There is no specific instruction given on what to do after highlighting. If we just focus on identifying sentences with four parts of speech: "A stranger was before him—a boy a shade larger than himself." contains a noun ('stranger', 'boy'), a verb ('was'), an adjective ('larger') and a preposition ('before'). Another could be "This boy was well dressed, too—well dressed on a week - day." with a noun ('boy'), verb ('was'), adverb ('well') and adjective ('week - day').