English 140

Assignment 2

Reproduced by permission of the author, Joanne Cormier

The first time I was introduced to computers, I was in grade 10. Today, children are taught to use them in preschools. By the time students reach high school, computers will have become an indispensable learning tool in their education. When I was in high school, we were lucky to have two computers in the entire school. Now, there is at least one per classroom. Why the change? Since computers were first introduced, the prices and sizes have been reduced substantially, which makes them affordable to the vast majority of the population. As the technology continues to develop, we will see computers on all the students' desks and in all of the households across America.

Note: This assignment has been chosen because it does clearly show the target grammar required in this assignment as this student has used the five different adverb clauses required. She has chosen to place all of her adverb clauses at the start of the sentences; some of them could also be used after the main clause in the sentence.