expert/ace/genuis help Passage 2: Why do you think JRR Tolkien made Bard kill Smaug, and not Thorin or Bilbo?

Pls needs hypehen or no hyphen 1. after serving as principal for ten years, mr. jones will resign this year 2. it's sixty seven degrees outside and it's only february!

Gulliver's attempt to imitate the houyhnhnms gulliver to accept himself as he is causes gulliver to hate himself and other humans improves gulliver's character causes gulliver to be patient with people's problems next

The first step in making a mental model for a compare-and-contrast text is a. comparing the two things being described. b. finding important details in the text. c. contrasting the two things being described. d. connecting details to what is already known.