What is the central idea of this paragraph

You can tell that this is the central idea by key phrases and sentences. "Barely managed..." and "spectators were asked to help" are two phrases the supported the central idea of they were not equipped to fight such a large fire.

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the third answer

explanation:

because

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).