Read the following two sentences. (1) gre eng rass gr ow son themoun tain. (2) green grass grows on the mountain. how does the principle of proximity explain why the second sentence makes sense immediately, but the first sentence does not?

a. the first sentence is encoded, and the second sentence is decoded.
b. we group letters of a given word together because there are no spaces between the letters, and we perceive words because there are spaces between each word.
c. we learn the first sentence subliminally which lets us translate the meaning of the second sentence quicker.
d. we read the first sentence as practice and the second sentence as real.