Pointers, Arrays for Grammar Logic

// This code runs but program misbehaves, please advise.

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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

// screen handling routines

void clearScreen();
void hitEnter();                    // press Enter to continue.
void drawMenu();                    // screen display for menu

// generate sentence routines

void initArray(char *[], int); //initialize each word to NULL string
void addVerbs(char *[], int); // populate the verbs array with input from user
void addNouns(char *[], int); // populate the nouns array with input from user
void display(char *[], int);  // display each string in the Noun or Verb array
void generateNV(char *[], char *[], int);
void generateNVN(char **, char **, int);

const int wordSize = 25;                // size of character array
const int listSize  = 10;                // size of pointer array

int main (void) {
 
  // declare 2 ptr arrays to hold a list of nouns and verbs  
  char *nouns[listSize];            
  char *verbs[listSize];            

  char *test[4] = {"one","two", "three", "four"};

 // allocate memory for 10 character strings in each ptr array
  for(int i=0; i < listSize; i++)
     nouns[i] = new char[wordSize];
  for (int i=0; i < listSize; i++)
     verbs[i] = new char[wordSize];

  char choice;       // user menu choice
       
  do {
   
     do {     // do some validation on user input here....
       drawMenu();
       cin.get(choice);
     } while ((choice < 49 || choice > 53) && choice != 'q');

    switch (choice)
    {
       int key;
       case '1':   initArray(nouns, listSize);
                   initArray(verbs, listSize);
                   hitEnter();
                   drawMenu();
                   break;

       case '2':   addNouns ( nouns, listSize);
                   addVerbs ( verbs, listSize);
                   hitEnter();
                   drawMenu();
                   break;

       case '3':   display(nouns, listSize);  
                   display(verbs, listSize);  
                   hitEnter();
                   drawMenu();
                   break;

       case '4':   generateNV(nouns, verbs, listSize);
                   hitEnter();
                   drawMenu();
                   break;

       case '5':   generateNVN(nouns, verbs, listSize);
                   hitEnter();
                   drawMenu();
                   break;

       case 'q':   cout <<  "\ngoodbye\n";
                   break;

       default:    break;
     } // end switch  
 
  } while (choice != 'q');
 
   return 0;
} // end main


// ARRAY ROUTINES

// initializes the array words to NULL strings
void initArray(char *ptr[], int size) {

      for(int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
      *ptr[i] = '\0';  
       cout << ptr[i];
  }
 
}

// display the array on the screen
void display(char *ptr[], int size) {

  for(int i = 0; i < size; i++)
  {
    if (ptr[i] != NULL)
       cout << ptr[i] << endl;
  }
  cout << endl;

}  

// populate the verbs array with 10 verbs input from user
void addVerbs(char *verbs[], int size) {

  for(int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
    clearScreen();
    cout << " Enter " << size - i << " verbs:";
    cin >> verbs[i];
  }

}


// populate the verbs array with 10 verbs input from user
void addNouns(char *nouns[], int size) {

 for(int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
   clearScreen();
   cout << "Enter " << size - i << " nouns:";
   cin >> nouns[i];
 }

}

void generateNV( char *nouns[], char *verbs[], int size)  {
 
   cout << nouns[rand() % size]  << " " << verbs[rand() % size] << endl;

}

void generateNVN( char **nouns, char **verbs, int size )
// note the various ways to access the data in nouns and verbs arrays
{
 cout << *(nouns + (rand() % size)) << " " << verbs[rand() % 9] << " "
      << nouns[rand() % size] << endl;

}

// SCREEN HANDLING ROUTINES

/*   function hitEnter:   programs pauses for user input  --------- */
void hitEnter(void) {
  char ch;
  do                        // read blanks and trailing CR
     cin.get(ch);      
  while  ( ch == ' ');

  cout << "\n\nHit Enter to continue....";
  cin.get(ch);

}

void clearScreen(void) {

  cout << "\033[2J";   // send vt100 ESC sequence to clear screen
  return;

}

void drawMenu (void) {

  static int count = 0;
     
  cout << "\033[2J";   // send vt100 ESC sequence to clear screen

  if(count == 0)
     cout << "\t\tWelcome to a program to generate sentences";
  else
     cout << "\t\t\tHomework #8";
  cout << "\n\n";
  cout << "\n1] Initialize arrays";
  cout << "\n2] Populate arrays";
  cout << "\n3] Display arrays";
  cout << "\n4] Generate a N-V Sentence";
  cout << "\n5] Generate a N-V-N Sentence";
  cout << "\nq] quit\n\nEnter Choice: ";
  count++;

}

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