Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

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Chapter 13 - Section 13.1 - Languages and Grammers - Exercises - Page 856: 3

Answer

Showing that the hare runs the sleepy tortoise is not a valid sentence.

Work Step by Step

The only way to get a noun, such as tortoise, at the end is to have a noun phrase at the end, --which can be achieved only via the production sentence → noun phrase transitive verb phrase noun phrase. - However, transitive verb phrase→ transitive verb→passes, and this sentence does not contain passes.
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