Read the excerpt from The Dark Game. On several occasions Room 40 received an unexpected but welcome gift when a German codebook
was recovered after a sea battle and presented to the British code breakers. One such gift was a codebook from the German ship Magdeburg, a light cruiser that ran aground on an island off of Finland. When Russian ships quickly bore down on the cruiser, the captain of the stranded ship immediately did what all naval officers were taught to do: he ordered his signalman to bring him the ship's codebook so he could throw the book, wrapped in lead covers, into the sea. But before the signalman could deliver the book to his captain, he was killed by Russian guns. When the Russians recovered his body, the sailor was still clutching the codebook in his arms. Which type of structure is used in the text? problem and solution cause and effect chronological comparison and contrast
A chronological structure is one that relates the events in the order in which they happened. It starts with the oldest event and ends with the most recent one. In this excerpt, the author describes how the Russians bore down on the cruiser, the captain gave an order, the signalman was killed and the Russians discovered the body. The events are told in the order in which they happened.
This passage describes the order of events that were taken when the ship went down, how the captain responded by protecting the code book, and then how the Russian ship found the captain's body still holding the code book. This follows the chronological pattern of events.
