I'm working on a deck for memorizing sentences. Basically, I'll have an English sentence on the front side, and when I see it I'll try to form that sentence in German (back side), which is the language I'm learning.

I've got an Excel file with all the sentences I want to get used to in terms of their structures. But here's the issue: Some sentences are really long, and if one doesn't deconstruct them into small pieces, and try to learn them first, it's going to be very overwhelming, and will increase my review time drastically, which I don't want.

I've seen some decks doing this and I am 100% sure there's a tutorial, but I can't seem to find it. What I want Anki to do is, to show me the simple/short sentences first. And after a while, it can start introducing those harder/longer sentences. Since at that point I'll already be familiar with the smaller chunks of the sentence, it'll be easier to memorize this long version of the sentence, is what I think. I do believe, this can be achieved with tags, but don't exactly know how to do that so that's what I'd like to learn, if you guys did anything similar to this. I'm planning to add more and more phrases everyday to this deck, so maybe that's also something to mention about/keep in mind, when it comes to implementing it.