Question

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Read the paragraph from a student's report.

(1) Because salt is a vital part of human existence, governments have been involved with the production of salt. (2) Taxes on salt once supported British rulers. (3) French kings controlled the production of salt by selling production rights to only a favored few. (4) Every day, each of the nearly six billion people on Earth uses this substance in one form or another. (5) Even in modern times, some Asian countries have established significant taxes on salt.

Which sentence interrupts the flow of the paragraph?

(SELECT ONLY ONE OPTION)

A. sentence 2

B. sentence 4

C. sentence 3

Answer 1

Which sentence interrupts the flow of the paragraph?

Sentence 4 interrupts the flow of the paragraph.

While the other sentences focus on the history and government control of salt production, sentence 4 introduces a new idea that is not directly related to the previous sentences. It breaks the flow of the paragraph by discussing the current usage of salt by people around the world.

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