The resumptive pronoun is not used much in English 6 | Note in English these words are classed as pronouns but are nouns in Arabic |
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For example: "The boy whose hair is long came" | When should the relative pronoun not be written? They indicate a particular thing but do not make complete sense |
Linguistically there is no difference between the 2 and they both can be used, even though they are rarely used.
25It is like saying: Hamid, THE ONE WHO is visiting his aunt, came last night | The underlined words after these words relate back to the word before the relative pronoun |
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The red word " that" is the relative pronoun, and the blue word " they" is the resumptive pronoun, the underlined text is the Relative Clause | Let us look at few examples how it is used: NOTE: It can also be used when feminine and masculine are in a group too, and of course it depends whether it refers to exclusively males or males with females in a group |
Remember a relative pronoun in Arabic is a definite noun, hence cannot describe an indefinite noun.
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