In example 3, if the non-intelligent being is placed in the place of an intelligent being | The resumptive pronoun is not used much in English 6 |
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The word that connects the clause to the word they are relating to is the relative pronoun | The describing sentence must have a pronoun which refers to the noun that is being described |
Note in English these words are classed as pronouns but are nouns in Arabic.
" The words whose and that are relative pronouns | The underlined words after these words relate back to the word before the relative pronoun |
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Remember a relative pronoun in Arabic is a definite noun, hence cannot describe an indefinite noun | The words hair is long describe "the boy" and in the second example the words I ate describe the "the sandwich" |
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.
13For example: "The boy whose hair is long came" | The resumptive pronoun " they" refers back to the relative pronoun " that" |
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When should the relative pronoun not be written? In the above examples this second part is coloured in blue | And of them are those that move on their bellies, and of them are those that walk on two legs Quran 24:45• "The sandwich that I ate was delicious |