Complex sentence: Carol Ann Duffy and was born to a Roman Catholic family in the Gorbals, a very poor part of Glasgow, the first child of Frank Duffy, an electrical fitter, and Mary Black.
Split into simpler sentences: Carol Ann Duffy was born to a Roman Catholic family in the Gorbals, a very poor part of Glasgow. She was the first child of Frank Duffy, an electrical fitter, and Mary Black.