[Grammar] Transformation of sentence

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Roktim

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We left when the meeting ended.
I called him when i reached home.

How can I make these sentences simple?
 

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We left when the meeting ended.
I called him when I reached home.

How can I make these sentences simple?

How much simpler do you want to make them? They're pretty basic already. What exactly are you trying to do and why?
 

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We left after the meeting cuts out one word, if that helps.
 

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We left when the meeting ended.
I called him when i reached home.

How can I make these sentences simple?

How much simpler do you want to make them? They're pretty basic already.
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I suspect that Roktim intends "How can I make these sentences simple?" to mean "How can I make these complex sentences simple sentences?"

If we deleted that which renders each sentence "complex," namely the subordinate clauses, we would be left with "We left" and "I called him."
 

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I reached home. I called him

It's not a great improvement in terms of language usage. If this is an exercise, it is not a good one.
 

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It smells like homework to me.
 

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And poor stuff at that. It's like passive conversions that make for clumsy sentences.
 
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