Parts of speech
most snakes are not poisonous and rarely attack us.

Given sentence:

Most snakes are not poisonous and rarely attack us.

Find: identification of the parts of speech in the given sentence

Most – adjective (since this is related to the noun Snakes that describes it)

Snakes – noun (since it names a person, place, thing, or idea)

Are – verb (since it is used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, which in this case is the snake’s actions)

Poisonous – (since this is still related to the noun Snakes that describes it)

Rarely – adjective ((since this is still related to the noun Snakes that describes it)

Attack – verb (since it still used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, which in this case is the snake’s actions)

Us – pronoun (refers either to the participants in the discourse, which in this case are the people)

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)

a simple sentence must have at least one dependent clause.