The people who are poor cannot afford to take a balanced diet. (Make simple sentence)

A simple sentence contains only one subject and one finite verb, expressing a single complete thought. The original sentence, "The people who are poor cannot afford to take a balanced diet," is a complex sentence because it has a main clause ("The people cannot afford to take a balanced diet") and a subordinate adjective clause ("who are poor") modifying "the people."

To convert this into a simple sentence, the subordinate clause needs to be condensed into a word or a phrase. The adjective clause "who are poor" can be replaced by the noun phrase "the poor," which collectively refers to poor people and acts as the subject of the simple sentence. This transformation reduces the sentence to a single independent clause with one finite verb ("cannot afford").