Which stage direction from "In the Victory Garden” indicates that time has passed? PEARL and OLIVE Wills are sitting on the front porch of their house in a Chicago neighborhood in 1944.
(Turning to HENRY, who has reached the porch)
PEARL and HENRY are working in the Victory Garden they have made together.
It is the middle of July.

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).

nominative

by our hard work

for that