Employ when monitoring and adjusting comprehension of a text?

Explanation:

the first is to Identify where the difficulty occurs

Next, identify what the difficulty is

Then, restate the difficult sentence or passage in their own words

Look back through the text

Finally, look forward in the text for information that might help them to resolve the difficulty

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).