Sabado, Agosto 6, 2011

Assignment in Comm 1 about Combining Sentence

  1. Mark Twain or Samuel L. Clemens in real life who lived in Hartford for several years is the author of Huckleberry Finn, a classic American novel.
  2. Mark Twain, whose very elaborate and elegant house was on Farmington Avenue, an area called Nook Farm, was the neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
  3. Mark Twain’s home has windows and a balcony that overlook his  large side porch, which according to people of today remind them of a steamboat since Twain in his youth piloted steamboats on the Mississippi.
  4. 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 never really liked this newfangled gadget since there was practically no one to talk to.
  5. Mark Twain lost a fortune investing to his love for industrial inventions, like the elaborate Paige typesetter which unfortunately was developed at the same time as the Linotype, a machine much simpler and less expensive.
  6. Mark Twain never felt the same for his house in Hartford after his daughter, Susy died there due to spinal meningitis and it resulted him to leave and returned only once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.

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