Usually conjunctions are not a good way to start a sentence; such as 'and' and 'but'...
It's an adjective; "The smallest puppy" is the subject of the sentence as the rest of the sentence describes it. Of course the subject cannot just be "puppy" so it must include "The smallest" as well. Since smallest is an adjective (A word that describes something else,) that answer is Adjective.
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Im unique because I can easily find people to scam and get points from on here. Btw it's 2001 :) Im so smart
The recurring theme of "fate vs. man" shows how a weird and cosmic chain of events and temptation is unavoidably going to affect the protagonist.
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