Read the excerpt from the odyssey.

'my ship?

poseidon lord, who sets the earth a-tremble,
broke it up on the rocks at your land's end.
a wind from seaward served him, drove us there.
we are survivors, these good men and i.'

what motivates odysseus to tell a lie to the cyclops?

odysseus knows that poseidon is the cyclops’ father.
odysseus is afraid the cyclops will steal their ship.
odysseus does not want to reveal their only means of escape.
odysseus does not know what has happened to his ship.

C is the correct answer

citizens are given 25 years of life to prove their worth to society; if they fail to do great things

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).