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Read the office gossip's dramatic retelling of a rumor. Select ALL the discourse markers that correctly signal she is abandoning her random tangent and returning to her main story.
"I think the CEO's new sports car is a midlife crisis purchase—which reminds me, my uncle just bought a motorcycle. But __________, the point is, the company is definitely going bankrupt."
The correct answers are anyway, in any case, and at any rate.
Anyway, in any case, and at any rate are discourse markers of dismissal and resumption. They are perfectly deployed here to dismiss the previous irrelevant information (the uncle's motorcycle) and steer the conversation back to the main topic (the company's bankruptcy).
By the way and incidentally are incorrect because they do the exact opposite: they are used to introduce a new tangent or an unrelated piece of information.