1) Read the line and answer the questions Has a snake ever coiled itself round any part of your body fell-blooded cobre a) Who is the speaker? b) Who did the speaker address? c) What is the speaker? ​

a. The speaker or narrator of the story is a homeopath doctor who narrates himself as a doctor who encounters a snake.

b. The speaker addresses us

c. The speaker is a Homeopathic Doctor, who thinks that he is handsome and feels proud of himself for being a homeopathic doctor and instead calls himself only a doctor instead of homeopathic doctor.

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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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