'Shortly' is an adverb. Verb form = 'Shorten' = to make shorter.

'Let' takes objective case. 'him' (not 'he') is the objective form.

'Police' is plural → 'were'. 'Informed of' is the correct passive structure.

Who/which/what introduce relative clauses — relative pronouns.

'Misspell' = mis + spell. Double 's' is required.

'By your watch' is the standard idiomatic expression.

'Give my compliments' = standard expression for sending regards.

'Caesar and Cleopatra' (1898) is a historical play by George Bernard Shaw.

G. B. Shaw is the greatest modern English dramatist — Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.

Bertrand Russell won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.

'A Farewell to Arms' (1929) is a novel by Ernest Hemingway.

Jonathan Swift ('Gulliver's Travels') is the foremost English satirist.

'Delude' = to mislead. Synonym: 'Deceive'.

'Wastage' = the abstract noun for the process or amount of wasting.

'Queer' = strange/odd. Antonym: 'Orderly' = neat/systematic.

'Heartening' = present participle used as adjective meaning encouraging.