At the end of Antigone, Creon says, “Fate has brought all my pride to a thought of
dust.” What does this line mean?

Creon felt that he had no comfort and everything he tried to do was wrong. Creon says, "Fate has brought all my pride to a thought of dust." When he says this, he recognizes his flaw and its consequences, but it's too late because fate has already taken place.

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).

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