ENG1502
ASSIGNMENT 1
DUE DATE: 15 APRIL 2025
, For this assignment, you will have to read Units 1 and 2 of Tutorial Letter 501.
Question 1
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
which there are so few answers (or are there)?
Sentence 2- With so many questions and so little answers, never before have we
started a new year (or are there)?
1.2 Which language aspect has helped you to re-arrange the words in 1.1?
The syntactic structure (word order) of the sentence helped in rearranging the words
while keeping the meaning intact.
ASSIGNMENT 1
DUE DATE: 15 APRIL 2025
, For this assignment, you will have to read Units 1 and 2 of Tutorial Letter 501.
Question 1
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
which there are so few answers (or are there)?
Sentence 2- With so many questions and so little answers, never before have we
started a new year (or are there)?
1.2 Which language aspect has helped you to re-arrange the words in 1.1?
The syntactic structure (word order) of the sentence helped in rearranging the words
while keeping the meaning intact.
