Complex sentence: After a battery of intellectual and psychological tests affirmed their instincts, Ballen left home at the age of 14 to attend Hargrave Military Academy, in Chatham, Va.
Split into simpler sentences: After a battery of intellectual and psychological tests affirmed their instincts, his parents enrolled him at 14 in Virgina's Hargrave Military Academy. At the age of 14, Ballen left home to attend Hargrave Military Academy, in Chatham, Va.