Today I learned about constructing, or rather understanding, sentences. This lesson is about identifying the components of the subject or predicate of a sentence. For example, a subject can be a noun, noun phrase, pronoun, etc. The colors are subject and predicate:
- الْوَلَدُ مِصْرِي The boy is Egyptian. (noun, adjective)
- إِسْمُ الْبِنْتِ آمِنَةٌ The girl's name is Aminah. (noun phrase [genetive construction], noun)
- هُيَ صَغِيْرٌ He is small. (pronoun, adjective)
- خَرَجَ خَالِدٌ مُبَكِّرًا Khalid went out early. (proper noun, verb-adverb pair)
- خَالِدٌ خَرَجَ مُبَكِّرًا Khalid went out early. (proper noun, verb-adverb pair)