And so he plays his part. the sixth age shifts
into the lean and slippered pantaloon,

which best identifies the meter of this passage?

a, irregular

b, trochaic meter

c, iambic pentameter

d, anapestic meter

In Anapestic meter, each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. "And so he plays" has stressed syllables right after the first word. Trochaic would demand that the first syllable was stressed. And irregular is just not the case since it has a pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables.

The pattern is as it follows:

The iamb, which in English indicates an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable; and "pentameter": it's always made with 10 syllables.

The correct answer is:

C, iambic pentameter

the correct answer is a. how to make proposal that works.

indeed, the register is quite formal and the tone is especially objective as it avoids the use of the first and second person singular (i, you) and opts instead for the third person plural which is more impersonal and focuses on the data and the argument that is being developed by the author. the formality adds the impression of respectability to the work and the impersonality adds objectivity to it.

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).