| In example 3, if the non-intelligent being is placed in the place of an intelligent being | |
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| Note in English these words are classed as pronouns but are nouns in Arabic | "The sandwich that I ate was delicious |
The words hair is long describe "the boy" and in the second example the words I ate describe the "the sandwich".
11| Today we continue learning about another type of definite nouns | When should the relative pronoun not be written? The Sela sentence can be a Verbial sentence or a Nominative one |
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| And of them are those that move on their bellies, and of them are those that walk on two legs Quran 24:45• The describing sentence must have a pronoun which refers to the noun that is being described | Remember a relative pronoun in Arabic is a definite noun, hence cannot describe an indefinite noun |
The resumptive pronoun is not used much in English 6.
| The underlined words after these words relate back to the word before the relative pronoun | The Sela sentence must always have a pronoun that relates it to the Mawsool noun |
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| Relative pronouns in Arabic behave in a similar fashion | 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 |
The red word " that" is the relative pronoun, and the blue word " they" is the resumptive pronoun, the underlined text is the Relative Clause.