Choose the best answer that identifies and explains why the chosen statement does not belong in the paragraph. a) "my grandmother had four cats, but we wanted a dog." this sentence does not agree with the main idea of choosing a family dog. b) "my parents thought that the idea of keeping a beagle happy in our house and yard was an idea we had better carefully research." this sentence does not agree with the main idea of choosing a family dog. c) "we had met a beagle at the dog park in our neighborhood, and my two sisters and i thought that the beagle was the most amazing dog of all the dogs we knew." this sentence does not agree with the main idea of choosing a family dog. d) "we had met a beagle at the dog park in our neighborhood, and my two sisters and i thought that the beagle was the most amazing dog of all the dogs we knew. my parents decided that our family was ready to get a dog, but they wanted to be certain that we chose the best dog for our family." this sentence does not agree with the main idea of choosing a family dog.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.