This new type is known in English as Relative Pronouns | In example 3, if the non-intelligent being is placed in the place of an intelligent being |
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The words hair is long describe "the boy" and in the second example the words I ate describe the "the sandwich" | The Sela sentence must always have a pronoun that relates it to the Mawsool noun |
When should the relative pronoun not be written? The red word " that" is the relative pronoun, and the blue word " they" is the resumptive pronoun, the underlined text is the Relative Clause | The word that connects the clause to the word they are relating to is the relative pronoun |
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Remember a relative pronoun in Arabic is a definite noun, hence cannot describe an indefinite noun |
And of them are those that move on their bellies, and of them are those that walk on two legs Quran 24:45• The Sela sentence can be a Verbial sentence or a Nominative one.
7In the above examples this second part is coloured in blue | The resumptive pronoun is not used much in English 6 |
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A group words like this is known as a clause and as it is related back to a word in the sentence it is called a relative clause | Note in English these words are classed as pronouns but are nouns in Arabic |
For interest: In English words such as that , who , whom , whose , or which are called relative pronouns.
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