He inherited, however, but little of the martial character of his ancestors. in the sentence above, “martial” is used as an adjective that means “warlike” or “soldierly.”rewrite this sentence in your own words.

A few different ways that this sentence could be written:

"He has almost none of the warlike capabilities of his ancestors."

"Unlike his antecedents, he is barely a warrior"

"He doesn't seem to share the same soldier like posture of his ancestors"

"He wasn't born with the militaristic aspect of his antecedents."

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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