Question

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.

The first thing about the Zimmermann telegram that two Room 40 code breakers, Reverend William Montgomery and Nigel de Grey, noticed was its length, more than a thousand groups. Although the length itself was not suspicious, it was out of the ordinary. Then de Grey noticed the top group of numbers in the message, 13042, a variation of 13040, indicated a German diplomatic code. Since Room 40 had a copy of the 13040 codebook, they began using it to decipher the message.


Which details in the text indicate a chronological structure? Check all that apply.


The first thing

Although

Then

Since

Answer 1

The first thing and Then indicate a chronological structure.

Answer 2

The correct answers are the first thing and then

Although and since are used to describe the situations further with more clauses, they are not used to indicate the chronological order of the events. The first thing and then are however used for this since we are presented with what happened first and then with what happened after that.