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, popularly 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 elaborate and elegant house on Farmington Avenue was in an area called Nook Farm which made him a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 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.

• The people today say that the windows and balcony overlooking the large porch in Mark Twain's house remind them of the steamboats young Twain had piloted on the 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. 

• Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford who owned the telephone, a device first used commercially in the nearby New Haven; but since there was practically no one else to talk to, he never really liked this gadget.

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 and lost a fortune in investing them, such as the elaborate Paige typesetter which was made at the same time with the simpler and less expensive Linotype machine.

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.

• After Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, died of spinal meningitis in the Hartford house, he never felt the same in the house again so he left, and returned only once, for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.