Which best explains why melville begins chapter 28 of moby- with a description of ahab’s physical absence above the ship’s hatches for several days? to show that ahab has no real command over his ship to make ahab’s eventual appearance on more dramatic to show that ahab is no longer interested in the whale hunt to make ahab’s eventual appearance on predictable

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).

the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be / which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.