Question

Sort the tiles to decide if each phrase is a signal.

Pope learned to ride a high wheeler himself that summer and
then
imported eight of them from England.
He opened
a riding school at the headquarters of his Pope Manufacturing Company, which produced supplies used in making shoes. He
also
convinced the president of a sewing machine company in Hartford, Connecticut,
to analyze
one of his bicycles and make 50 more in his factory.
Before long
, Pope converted his own business to focus solely on bicycles and took a trip to England to study the industry there.
Upon his return
, he found one big obstacle.
Signals

Not Signals

Answer 1

Signals
- then — sequence/time signal
- also — additive signal
- Before long — temporal/sequence signal
- Upon his return — temporal signal

Not Signals
- He opened — main clause/action, not a discourse signal
- to analyze — infinitive verb phrase, not a discourse signal