In paragraph thirteen of "let george do it," find a word that means to cover or swallow up.

3) "what an unpleasant task! " thought george. surely the idea, "let george do it," originated in his family. the taunts of the boys now rang in his ears. they often chanted, "it was 18 and 65, george segundus was then alive, a lazy old drone from the land of . . " george's thoughts continued to plague him. "oh, why did my family call me george, and why do i have to work on a day like this? there are so many better things to do! " he thought.

13) The skies were still blue, but a heavy cloud began to engulf George as he saw Papa coming slowly down the path. A strange feeling developed in his stomach. Now George realized what he had done. How would he face Papa? George's sensitive conscience was already hurting. In all the glory of this day, he had left a job undone and disobeyed his father. What would Papa do?

The word in this paragraph that means to swallow up is 'engulf'. In this context it means that George is overwhelmed by how he feels, his feelings of guilt are swallowing him up, they are taking over and are all he can feel. Engulf means to be completely surrounded, immersed by something that you can't control.

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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