Use the prompt below to write a structured and complete paragraph. Use the reminders to help you hit all parts of the paragraph and turn in your best work. Your work will be returned to you ungraded if you have basic capitalization errors. Run a spelling and grammar check before submitting.

Read the passage: canines may not be the deepest thinkers in the world. but perhaps that's for the best. the life of a dog—sitting alone all day, waiting for everyone to come home—can be pretty boring. super-smart animals would probably get totally stressed out, says university of pennsylvania researcher james serpell. look at it this way: if dogs were any smarter, they probably wouldn't choose to hang around with us. which best describes the tone of the passage?

In 2–3 complete sentences, thoroughly explain the protagonist's main motivation or goal in "the rules of the game"? what does the protagonist want? provide at least two specific details from the text to support your analysis of the protagonist's motivation or goal.

Thomas paine's common sense convicted colonists to