Existentialism is characterized by select all that apply.

Existentialism is the theory the believes that every individual exists according to one's free will and responsibility. The answers that would fit the given blank above are the following: a belief that everything is meaningful and the interconnectedness of all things.

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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