Why doesn’t romeo want to fight tybalt at first? romeo plans to marry juliet. romeo is related to tybalt by marriage. romeo thinks mercutio started the conflict. romeo is afraid tybalt is a better swordsman.

1.) is true

2.) is false

the sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).