The Butterfield Overland Mail route was the first regular transportation system between the eastern U. S. and the western
frontier, linking St. Louis to San Francisco. Nearly one-fourth of its 2,800 miles were on Texas soil.

Shanti is doing research for a report on the history of the Butterfield Overland Mail route. Which would be a good note to add to her
research?
A.
Between Fort Smith and El Paso, Texas, lay a thousand miles of wilderness.
B.
The stagecoach was an early operation of American Express and Wells Fargo.
After completion of the railroad line, the town grew rapidly.
D.
Traders went out to buy the toughest and fastest horses and mules available.

jefferson introduced the idea that one does not change a government for "light" causes because he wanted to emphasize the seriousness of colonists' reasons for declaring independence.

i think one answer could be this poet uses no rhyme.

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).