Complex sentence: Benny and Smalls then decide to tell the dog's owner, Mr. Mertle (James Earl Jones), about the ordeal, and he reveals he would have simply returned the ball if they had just asked him.
Split into simpler sentences: Benny and Smalls then decide to tell the dog's owner, Mr. Myrtle (James Earl Jones), about the ordeal. Mr. Myrtle reveals that he would have simply returned the ball if the boys had just asked him.