Possible answers

Sentence Simplification and Trimming

Simplification:
1. The writing is often said to be that of Sun Tzu, but many writers probably wrote it.
2. Something happened when the government did something.
3. Something like sugar was discovered by accident.
4. This thing functions to determine one thing.
5. Some guys were doing something with theories.
6. Walter Baade did something with the existence of stars.
7. Critics consider Dracula the horror story from which all others originate.
8. Archeologists use two types of methods.
9. A thing operates by changing one type of thing into another.
10. Something came from art and did something to critics.

Trim the Fat

1. Wild horses are found in patches of Africa and Asia.
2. Light is focused onto a device.
3. A block is the expectation that the vehicle will travel 300 miles.
4. John Snow was able to halt an outbreak.
5. Cores of ice provide valuable data.
6. Nikola Tesla shocked an audience by operating a boat.
7. Fainting results from an insufficient supply of oxygen.
8. One provision was the government’s ability to prevent a strike.
9. Nelson Mandela was elected president.
10. Soldiers celebrated by playing soccer.

Note: Please note that these are not the only correct versions of the sentences. Your trimming
and simplifications were mostly correct too. This is just to show you what the crucial
information is in each sentence. You can compare your answers with these sentences and
identify more less important parts you included or the more important parts you missed.

Keep working. ;)