Excerpt from music to my ears
john devine

"i tried to keep up with the conversation as best i could, but when i heard phrases like myocardial infarction and fibromyalgia i just knew i couldn’t hack it as a physician."

"i tried to keep up with the conversation as best i could, but when i heard phrases like myocardial infarction and fibromyalgia i just knew i couldn’t hack it as a physician."

in this quotation from the selection, myocardial infarction and fibromyalgia are examples of
a) dialect.
b) hyperbole.
c) jargon.
d) slang.

C) jargon.

Explanation:

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 text includes parts of primary-source interviews with enslaved people to illustrate the difficulty of life on a sugar plantation in louisiana.

explanation: