TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
PROBLEM: Like many composers in this period , he started his musical career as a chorister , although the exact location of his education is unknown : Mons , a town near Saint-Ghislain that had at least two churches with competent music schools , has been suggested .

SOLUTION: Like many composers in this period , he started to learn about music by singing in a church choir , quite possibly in Saint-Ghislain and then in Mons .

PROBLEM: El Salvador ( ; -RSB- ) , officially the Republic of El Salvador ( , literally " Republic of The Savior " ) , is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America .

SOLUTION: El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America .

PROBLEM: To the south in the Saar-Palatinate region , Lieutenant General George S. Patton 's U.S. 3rd Army had dealt a devastating blow to the German 7th Army and , in conjunction with the U.S. 7th Army , had nearly destroyed the German 1st Army .

SOLUTION:
To the south in the Saar-Palatinate region , Lt. Gen. George S. Patton 's 3rd Army had beaten the German 7th Army and the German 1st Army .