States of the Predicate: Omission, Expression, Verbal Forms, Conditions and Preposing

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• What is the predicate in “Zayd is standing”?
• When is omission of a predicate eloquent?
• Which device is illustrated when one predicate is understood for two participants in “فإني وقيار بها لغريب”?
• What is the main rhetorical benefit in “نحن بما عندنا وأنت بما عندك راض”?
• What allows the missing predicate in “خرجت فإذا زيد” to be understood?
• Why might a predicate need explicit mention?
• What does “وردت” highlight in “وردت عكاظ قبيلة”?
• What is the best contrast between “زيد منطلق” and “زيد انطلق”?
• Which element connects the inner clause of “زيد أبوه قائم” to Zayd?
• What extra information does “عمرا” provide in “زيد ضرب عمرا”?
• What is an important function of “kāna” in “كان زيد منطلقا”?
• In what respect do in, idhā and law chiefly differ here?
• What does “in” in “إن صدقت فماذا تفعل” not necessarily show?
• What does “idhā” normally suggest in “إذا جاء زيد فأكرمه”?
• What rhetorical contrast appears in “فإذا جاءتهم الحسنة ... وإن تصبهم سيئة”?
• What purpose can the conditional serve in “وإن كنتم في ريب”?
• What does “لو جاء زيد لأكرمته” express in its ordinary counterfactual use?
• What device creates vividness in “ولو ترى إذ وقفوا على النار”?
• What is notable about “ربما يود الذين كفروا”?
• What may the imperfect in “وتثير سحابا” convey?
• When can an indefinite predicate suggest greatness?
• Why is “أخوك” definite in “زيد أخوك”?
• When is “عمرو المنطلق” especially apt?
• Which example has an entire clause serving as predicate?
• What matters in comparing “لا فيها غول” and “لا ريب فيه”?
• Why may the opening “له” matter in “له همم لا منتهى لكبارها”?
• Why is it unsafe to read every preposed predicate as absolute restriction?
• In predicate ellipsis, the meaning necessarily disappears even when context makes it recoverable.
• Kāna places the description in the past, but does not invariably prove that the state ended afterward.
• Every use of conditional in proves the speaker is personally in doubt.