Money Paid As Tax Or The Levying Of Tax
<span>As the door slowly creaked open, Jessie peered carefully into the vast darkness, holding her breath.
The "slowness" of the creaking door and the "vast darkness" add a weight to the sentence unlike the others. </span>
The Hokkaido is a breed of dog originating from Japan. Other names for the breed include Ainu-ken, Seta, Ainu dog. In Japan, its name is sometimes shortened to Dō-ken. The Hokkaido is native to the prefecture of the same name in Japan.
It would be the girls’ dogs since there are multiple owners of the dogs. You keep the girls plural and use the apostrophe at the end to make it girls’ since it is both plural and possessive.