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 |
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In the above examples this second part is coloured in blue | The Sela sentence can be a Verbial sentence or a Nominative one |
The words hair is long describe "the boy" and in the second example the words I ate describe the "the sandwich".
1The Sela sentence must always have a pronoun that relates it to the Mawsool noun | Remember a relative pronoun in Arabic is a definite noun, hence cannot describe an indefinite noun |
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gods by the idol worshippers | However, in Arabic, they are nouns, not pronouns |
For example: "The boy whose hair is long came" | A relative noun is a noun referring to a definite thing by a sentence that follows it |
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Relative pronouns in Arabic behave in a similar fashion |
In such cases the relative pronoun is not allowed between the described noun and the describing sentence.
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