Complex sentence: The Shoals is a metropolitan area in northwestern Alabama including the cities of Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, and Sheffield, and the counties of Lauderdale, and Colbert.
Split into simpler sentences: The Shoals is a metropolitan area in northwestern Alabama including the cities of Florence, AL, Muscle Shoals, AL, Tuscumbia, AL, and Sheffield, AL. As well as the counties of Lauderdale, and Colbert.