As a young man, foster was a bookkeeper at his brother’s steamship company
Depends on which word is italicized.
<em>The </em>is a determiner, <em>pink </em>is an adjective, <em>pig </em>is a noun, <em>clapped </em>is a verb, <em>wildly </em>is an adverb.
The real question is who bought the pen?
A has the most correct punctuation