What does the reader learn about dill in chapter 9 of tkam

The reader learns that Dill has no home.

Explanation:

“Grandma says he hasn’t got a home—”

“Has too, he lives in Meridian.” “—he just gets passed around from relative to relative, and Miss Rachel keeps him every summer.”

This very brief passage gives us further insight into Dill's character, and once again reminds us that things are not always as they seem.

use it to buy the fattest block of cheese

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).