Complex sentence: The company decided not to repair this machine after it worn out and went out of service, claiming that the pencil actually was not commercially successful John Steinbeck and likely other proponents of this pencil were trying to convince the company to continue production but without success.
Split into simpler sentences: The company decided not to repair this machine after it worn out and went out of service, claiming that the pencil actually was not commercially successful. The proponents of this pencil were trying to convince the company to continue production but without success.