Read the sentence. rome has been called the eternal city for centuries because ancient citizens felt it was a utopian place with a monopoly of knowledge that would last forever. which words should be changed to make the sentence more appropriate for a general audience? called and city utopian and monopoly citizens and knowledge ancient and forever

Utopian and monopoly should be changed to make the sentence more appropriate for a general audience. A Utopia is an assumed culture that holds very excellent or approximately ideal features for its residents.

The contrast of a utopia is a dystopia. Monopoly is the particular ownership of the stock in a products.

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).