What does the story “how much land does a man need? ” focus on?
a. a land dispute between the peasants and landowners.
b. pahom's thirst for knowledge.
c. the evil nature of the devil.
d. the problems of pahom, a russian peasant.

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).

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