ENG1502 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2025

TEXT A What will 2021 bring? Never before have we started a new year with so many questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there)? A friend gave my 10-year-old grandson a little round grey object as a birthday present recently, and I just could not figure out what it was, or why he was so excited about it than the new swimming trunk decorated with huge and colourful toucans that I gave him. It turned out to be a mini smart speaker, or more precisely, an Artificial intelligence voice-controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker, apparently designed to control the home by voice command, leaving your hands free to do other things. After a swift little DIY procedure requiring a small screwdriver, he connected another small device between the speaker and his bedside lamp . . . After my bewildered questions . . . , he informed me that this little critter can communicate with Google and is activated by him saying, “Hey Google”. He can then ask Google whatever he wants to know. Source: Celliers, A. (2021). The Gardener. (p.96) 1.1 Construct two different sentences using the same words from the original sentence: "Never before have we started a new year with so many questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there)?" My sentence - We have never started a new year before with so many questions, to