Seasons are celebrations.   a year's a ferris wheel.   both honor our world's habit   of spinning 'round a star. which one of the following sentences  bestexpresses the main idea of this poem?                 a.  there are four seasons in a year.      b.  the world has a habit of spinning around.      c.  seasons are celebrations, while a year on earth is a habit.      d.  seasons and ferris wheels are like earth's journey around the sun. 

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).