Complex sentence: Before the Shadow Lord took control of Deltora, Barda was a guard at the palace of Del. His mother Min was a great gossiper and the nursemaid to young Jarred and Endon; late one night she overheard the Shadow Lord's plot to take control of Deltora.
Split into simpler sentences: Before the Shadow Lord took control of Deltora, Barda was a guard at the palace of Del. His mother Min was a great gossiper and the nursemaid to young Jarred and Endon. Late one night she overheard the Shadow Lord's plot to take control of Deltora.