Reverend rector stepped up to his pulpit and glowered at his flock. "it's becoming obvious," he began, "that the devil himself is among us. i hear that members of my church are staying out late, going to bowling alleys, and in some cases even dancing! from now on, you shall cleave to my principles of no dancing, drinking, or bowling! " that very night, the reverend got a call from one of the flock that his son rodney had been seen rather intoxicated at an all-night dance. the next morning when poor rodney woke to both a massive hangover and an irate father, he simply replied that he had followed his father's sermon right to the letter. how could this be? i am giving a brainiest and a 73 points if you can solve this.

autobiography of an ex-colored man is told from the first-person point of view of an unnamed male narrator. he starts his tale by stating that he is going to reveal the great secret of his life. he first takes the reader to his childhood in georgia where he was raised by a single mother. he was dissapointed in his own color.

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).