Help please Think about Rachel Carson’s motives for writing Silent Spring. Do you believe her writings helped establish the modern environmentalist movement? What do you think Carson would have to say about climate change, if she knew what we now know about the impact of humans on the environment?

usually, a falcon can kill an owl, and horses don't normally eat each other.

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).

line a --> main

line b --> young

line c --> atitude

hasty generalization