Read the paragraph. (1) Every year, our school has a holiday cookie sale. (2) Hundreds of volunteers bake thousands of cookies.
(3) Last year, I couldn’t attend because I was ill. (4) All the cookies are sorted by type. (5) People then purchase the cookies by the pound. (6) It is a great fundraiser for the school. What sentence is an example of a digression? A.)sentence 6 B.) sentence 1 C.)sentence 5 D.)sentence 3
Well a digression is a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing. So because the person writing the paragraph getting ill last year has nothing to do with this years cookie sale, I think you are correct, sentence 3 is an example of a digression. So D is the answer.
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