Read the following excerpt from mrs. drainger's veil by howard mumford jones: emily, of course, had changed. she met me at the door as she met you. she was a shell burned out by one fierce moment of fire. the figurative language used in the excerpt is . it us infer that emily is . nextreset

the number of people with jobs in factories as unskilled workers increased.

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).