By the midpoint of the twentieth century, America was a country that had been involved in two world wars, a country into which immigrants had streamed from many other nations seeking the American dream, a country that had struggled with a devastating economic crisis. How might these facts have driven the broadening and diversifying of American literature?

(d) alice notices that the glass is melting away. because that aint real

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 answer is mary made mudpies on monday.

remember alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.  

wheres the following authors?