Combining sentences into one effective sentence.

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: Samuel L. Clemins, or also known as Mark twain, lived in Hartford for several years and is the author of Huckleberry Finn, a classic American Novel.

                  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 lived in a place called Nook Farm with a very elaborate and elegant house on Farmington Avenue where he had Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as neighbor.

  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, who piloted steamboats on the Mississipi, has a home with a large side porch that has windows and a balcony, which today's people say remind them of a steamboat, overlooking it. 

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 he never really liked this newfangled gadget because 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.

Answer:  Mark Twain’s love for industrial inventions led him to invent the elaborate Paige typesetter but lost a fortune investing in them because it was developed at the same time as the Linotype, which was 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.

Answer: Mark Twain left the Hartford home when his beloved daughter named Suzy died there of spinal meningitis, for it could never feel the same, and thus only returned once for the funeral of his friend Charles Dudley Warner.

Calories in Filipino Foods

What makes the text entitled “Calories in Filipino Foods” specific and concrete is that the author gives the specific and right amount of calories that a body can produce by the food that we eat and even from the things that we do. Calories is the amount of energy in food/drink we ingest, and also the energy consumed or lost with any bodily activity. It is explained that eating 500 calories more a day will make a person gain one pound from the person’s body weight in a week. Calorie-awareness is essential to good health. Eating is enjoyable and a healthy appetite is good.

Indian Food

What makes the text entitled “Indian Food” specific and concrete is that the author really bought ideas that the readers could understand more. In the text, spiciness of the foods of India was explained by the author. In, North India mostly all dishes are prepared around the main course of rice found abundantly in the beautiful valley. Saag and Hak were mentioned in the text, it is a green leafy vegetable. In West Indian Food, desert cuisine is famous because an immense variety of dals and achars is used that simply substitutes the relative lack of fresh vegetables in these areas. Some of the major dishes of this region are sweet and sour Vindaloo, duck baffad, sorpotel, and egg molie. In East Indian Food, the Bengali and Assamese styles of cooking are noticeable. Bengalis is the yummy combination of rice and fish. A special way of preparing the delicacy is also explained, which is called as the Hilsa is by wrapping it in the pumkin leaf and then cooking it, and lastly in the South Indian Food, the states make great use of spices, fishes and coconuts, as most of them have coastal kitchens. The cooking style of Andhra Pradesh is supposed to make excessive use of chilies, which is obviously to improve the taste of the dishes.

Turn out the lite...by Anderson Digby

1. The mildest thing one would want to say about this horrid dry pink innovation, which sweated under the grill and fell to bits under the knife, was that it was less than a sausage.

2. It is whatever is the opposite of Lite.

3. The mesclun is obviously complex, the others less obviously but still so.

4. The entertainment industry is fluffy and flimsy.

5. The food market is demand-led.

Nostalgia for Kerala (and its food) by Pete Cherches

1. Kerala is a success story of the developing world.
2. Jewtown is a fascinating place.

3. It's a mannered, gestural, ritualistic dance theatre, similar in some ways to other Asian dance idioms, such as Indonesian and Japanese forms.

4.The dancers have perfect control of all face and body muscles, and the make-up is striking and elaborate.

5.The ride was delightful, though a bit claustrophobic.

Nostalgia for Kerala (and its food) by Pete Cherches