How many verbs are there in the following sentences? He tried to do the repair on the car, but failed.
The singers laughed as they forgot some of the words.
The car went fast around the bend in the road, and the tyres screeched.
Don't let the cook forget to add the salt as the water boils.
The chancellor provided an estimate of how the economy would do next year.

He tried to do the repair on the car, but failed.

The singers laughed as they forgot some of the words.

The car went fast around the bend in the road, and the tyres screeched.

Don't let the cook forget to add the salt as the water boils.

The chancellor provided an estimate of how the economy would do next year.

Explanation:

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).

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.