Comm 1 Exercise

In the text-area below each group of sentences, combine all of those sentences into one effective sentence containing only one main thought (independent clause).

1.
Mark Twain is the author of Huckleberry Finn.
Huckleberry Finn is a classic American novel.
Mark Twain's real name was Samuel L. Clemens.
He lived in Hartford for several years.

       Samuel L. Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain author of the American classic "Huckleberry Finn", lived in Hartford for several years.
 
2.
Mark Twain's house was very elaborate and elegant.
It was on Farmington Avenue.
It was in an area called Nook Farm.
He was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. 




       Mark Twain's elaborate and elegant house is in Famington, Avenue in Nook Farm where he is a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of  "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

 
3.
Mark Twain's home has a large side porch.
Windows and a balcony overlook the porch.
Today, people say the windows and balcony remind them of a steamboat.
In his youth, Twain piloted steamboats on the Mississippi. 

       Nowadays, when people say that the windows and balcony that overlooks Mark Twain's large side porch, reminds them of steamboats that back in his younger days, Mark Twain used to pilot.

 
4.
Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone.
The telephone was first used commercially in nearby New Haven.
There was practically no one to talk to.
Mark Twain never really liked this newfangled gadget. 

       Being one of the first people to own a telephone in Hartford, Mark Twain never really like the gadget since there is no one to talk to unlike in New Haven, where the telephone was first used commercially.

5.
Mark Twain loved industrial inventions.
He lost a fortune investing in them.
One of these inventions was the elaborate Paige typesetter.
Unfortunately for Twain, this machine was developed at the same time as the Linotype.
The Linotype machine was much simpler and less expensive. 

       Mark Twain, who loved industrial inventions, invested in the elaborate Paige typesetter which unfortunately cost him a fortune because the Linotype machine, which is simpler and less expensive, was also developed at the same time.

 
6.
Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died in the Hartford home.
She died of spinal meningitis.
Twain never felt the same about the house again.
He soon left the house and Hartford.
He returned only once.
He came back for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.

        Mark Twain left his house and Hartford because he never felt the same way about the house since Suzy, his beloved daughter, died there due to spinal meningitis but he did return once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.