Which of the following is true about an employee handbook? a. employee handbook pages should be skimmed and scanned but never closely read. b. employee handbooks typically have information about company policies, employee benefits, and the company’s organizational structure. c. the information in employee handbooks is generally kept from employees. d. employee handbooks are typically short documents.

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).