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Instructions: In the text area below each group of sentences, combine all of those sentences into one effective sentence containing only one 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.
           ANSWER: Mark Twain whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens, the author of Huckleberry                     Finn, a classic American novel, 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.
           ANSWER: Mark Twain-- neighbor to the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe,--whose house on Farmington Avenue in Nook Farm was very elaborate and elegant.
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.
          ANSWER:Mark Twain's home has windows and balcony, that overlook a large side porch,remind people today of a steamboat which he piloted in the Mississippi during in his youth.
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.
         ANSWER: Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone--which was first used commercially in nearby New Haven, but there was no one to talk to--and he never really liked this newfangled 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.
          ANSWER: Mark Twain loved industrial inventions--for example, the elaborate Paige typesetter was developed at the same time as the Linotype which was much simpler and less expensive--but lost a fortune investing on them.
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.
          ANSWER: Mark Twain never felt the same about the house again--since Susy, his beloved daughter, died of spinal meningitis in the Hartford home,--and soon left the house and Hartford, returned only once, during the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.