Exercises:

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

• The author of the classic American novel Huckleberry Finn, Samuel L. Clemens or well known as Mark Twain, 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 very elaborate and elegant house was located in an area called Nook Farm on Farmington Avenue where he was 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. 

• Today, people say the windows and balcony, that overlook Mark Twain's large porch, remind them of a steamboat that Twain piloted during his youth in Mississippi.

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. 

• The telephone was first used commercially in nearby New Haven and Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own one but he never really liked it for there was practically no one to talk to.

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 loved industrial inventions like the elaborate Paige typesetter but unfortunately, he lost a fortune investing in it for the machine was developed at the same time as the Linotype which is much simpler and less expensive.

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.

• Since Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died of spinal meningitis in the Hartford home, he never felt the same about the house again and came back only once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.