Read this passage from H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. And invisible to me because it was so remote and small,
flying swiftly and steadily towards me across that
incredible distance, drawing nearer every minute by so
many thousands of miles, came the Thing they were
sending to us, the Thing that was to bring so much
struggle and calamity and death to the earth.
Why does Wells refer to the Martian spacecraft as "the Thing"?
A. To provide descriptive detail
B. To build tension and suspense
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C. To explain its lack of importance
D. To give readers its proper name

i cant see the passage although i do know hyperbole means overly exaggerated such as "i can eat an enter horse"! i hope this you!

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).

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