Question

They were poor, and often suffered great hardship compound sentence to simple ones

Answer 1

they often suffered great hardships because they were poor
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Answer 2

Answer:

The simple sentence of the given sentence is "Being poor they often suffered great hardship".

Explanation:

• A ‘simple sentence’ contains only one independent clause with a single subject and a predicate.
• A compound sentence consists of “two or more independent clauses” and dependent clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions like for, and, but, so, etc. or by a comma or a semicolon.
• A compound sentence is converted to a simple sentence "by reducing the clauses".
• When a compound sentence relates to a cause and effect situation and is constructed using the conjunction ‘and’; then the clause is reduced by using participle form (-ing form) of the verb in the sentence.
• The simple format with this condition would be: Being + cause + independent/main clause.
• In the given sentence, the clause ‘they were’ is reduced to its participle form of ‘being’ to convert it to a simple sentence.