Complex sentence: The son of Hugh Victor Melvin and Maisie Winifred Driscoll, Murray Melvin left his North London secondary school at the age of fourteen unable to master fractions but as Head Prefect, a qualification he says he gained by always having clean fingernails and well combed hair.
Split into simpler sentences: The son of Hugh Victor Melvin and Maisie Winifred Driscoll, Murray Melvin left his North London secondary school at the age of fourteen unable to master fractions but as Head Prefect. A qualification he says he gained by always having clean fingernails and well combed hair.