Complex sentence: Gustav was born 1 April 1929 on a farm on the tiny Danish island of Laesoe, the eighth of nine children, Gustav completed 9 years of schooling there in an ancient one-room elementary school and a brand-new junior high school.
Split into simpler sentences: Gustav was born 1 April 1929 on a farm on the tiny Danish island of Laesoe. The eighth of nine children, Gustav completed 9 years of schooling there in an ancient one-room elementary school and a brand-new junior high school.