Complex sentence: Michael Jackson was born on August 29,1958, the eighth of ten children in an African American working-class family who lived in a 3-room house in Gary, Indiana, an industrial city near Chicago.
Split into simpler sentences: Michael Jackson was born on August 29,1958, in Gary, Indiana. He was the eighth of ten children in an African American working-class family who lived in a 3-room house in Gary, an industrial city near Chicago.