The unexpected plays an important part in this particular text. We also get a glimpse into gender roles and how they are manipulated in this piece. Before we go on to analyze, take a few minutes to write down what you think gender roles are in our society today. Gender refers to male or female and roles refer to the way they are expected to think or behave. Do you think there are clearly defined gender roles in today's society? Are men expected to act a certain way? Are women? Support your position with examples. Make sure that your sentences are legible and clear. Follow all writing conventions including those for capitalization and punctuation.

Gender roles have changed through the years. Many years ago women had to stay home taking care of their children, they could not work. It is not like that anymore, but there are still a lot of gender roles in today's society. Nowadays, movements such us feminism are trying to get rid of them, however, it is impossible to say they are not there. Men and women are definitely expected to act a certain way in different situations. For example, women cannot have hair in their bodies but men have to, and women are expected to be sensitive but men cannot cry because that is not masculine. These examples are social constructions, the truth is women can have body hair and men can cry.

Explanation:

To complete this exercise, you have to write about gender roles giving examples. It's important to understand how gender roles have changed through the years to realize that they can keep changing because they are not universal truths.

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).