gods by the idol worshippers | The describing sentence must have a pronoun which refers to the noun that is being described |
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The resumptive pronoun " they" refers back to the relative pronoun " that" | The word that connects the clause to the word they are relating to is the relative pronoun |
Remember a relative pronoun in Arabic is a definite noun, hence cannot describe an indefinite noun.
23" The words whose and that are relative pronouns | 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" | "The sandwich that I ate was delicious |
In such cases the relative pronoun is not allowed between the described noun and the describing sentence.
15A 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 | The red word " that" is the relative pronoun, and the blue word " they" is the resumptive pronoun, the underlined text is the Relative Clause |
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In example 3, if the non-intelligent being is placed in the place of an intelligent being |
The underlined words after these words relate back to the word before the relative pronoun.
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