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Let’s just say that people in Maidan Sabz worked twice as hard [to eke out half the living].

Adverb clause

Now, [after ten years of drought], the river too ran shallow.

Adverb clause

Yes, there was a river, [but the villagers had to endure a half-day walk to reach it], and even then its waters flowed muddy all year round.

Adverb clause

Finding water was a daily struggle [because the village wells], even the deep ones, [often ran low].

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[The wind was hot, and blew dust in the eyes].

Independent clause

It sat in a flat, dusty plain [ringed by a chain of craggy mountains].

Adjective clause

But Maidan Sabz was a desolate place, and it didn’t resemble in the slightest the image that its name, [Field of Green], would have you picture.

Noun clause

[There were other, more fortunate villages] to the north, in the valleys, with fruit trees and flowers and pleasant air, and streams that ran with cold, clear water.

Main clause

[Life in Maidan Sabz was hard] for all its inhabitants.

Main clause

I will say that, [in this regard], he was hardly alone.

Adverb clause

His hands were always callused, [and they often bled], and every night sleep stole him away no sooner than his cheek met the pillow.

Adjective clause

At any given moment [you could spot him] in his field, bent at the waist, back as curved as the scythe he swung all day.

Main clause

[Every day], he labored from dawn to sundown, plowing his field and turning the soil and tending to his meager pistachio trees.

Adverb clause

[Because he had a large family to feed], Baba Ayub saw his days consumed by hard work.

Adverb clause

He lived with his family in a little village [by the name of Maidan Sabz].

Adjective clause

Once upon a time, in the days when divs and jinns and giants roamed the land, [there lived a farmer named Baba Ayub].

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