Complex sentence: However, in some of the French loanwords, especially short words in common use, the instead developed to this development preceded the Great Vowel Shift, the resulting Early Modern English sound was rather than, as in "change".
Split into simpler sentences: However, in some of the French loanwords, especially short words in common use, the instead developed to. As this development preceded the Great Vowel Shift, the resulting Early Modern English sound was rather than, as in "change".