LessonsDefining the Subject by a Relative Pronoun: Purposes and Rhetorical ApplicationsQuiz

أَوْ زِيَادَةُ التَّقْرِيرِ
Or in order to reinforce the intended point.

Sometimes the referent is already identifiable, yet the relative clause recalls the very circumstance that lends the main predication force. Taqrīr (التقرير) here is not mere repetition of words; it consolidates the point by making the relevant background salient.

For instance, “The person who helps orphans every day has built them a school today” uses the clause to foreground a continuing habit; the predicate then becomes another striking instance of that established character.

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Reinforcing the intended point

Defining the Subject by a Relative Pronoun: Purposes and Rhetorical Applications

أَوْ زِيَادَةُ التَّقْرِيرِ
Or in order to reinforce the intended point.

Sometimes the referent is already identifiable, yet the relative clause recalls the very circumstance that lends the main predication force. Taqrīr (التقرير) here is not mere repetition of words; it consolidates the point by making the relevant background salient.

For instance, “The person who helps orphans every day has built them a school today” uses the clause to foreground a continuing habit; the predicate then becomes another striking instance of that established character.