LessonsSupplementary Practice 10: Rhetoric of Claim, Evidence, Objection and ReplyQuiz

التَّقْرِيرُ صَحِيحٌ فِي جُمْلَتِهِ. رَاجَعْنَا السِّجِلَّاتِ.
The report is sound overall. We checked the records.

If the first statement naturally raises the unspoken question “By what was this established?”, the second may be an instance of explanatory resumption (istiʾnāf bayānī). It provides the implied answer without a coordinating wāw, thereby preserving the underlying question-and-answer relation.

By contrast, in a narrative merely listing two independent events, the same forms might be understood differently. Punctuation or the absence of wāw cannot by itself prove resumption; the auditor's plausible implied question and the function of the next clause must both be established.

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When the argument itself raises a question

Supplementary Practice 10: Rhetoric of Claim, Evidence, Objection and Reply

التَّقْرِيرُ صَحِيحٌ فِي جُمْلَتِهِ. رَاجَعْنَا السِّجِلَّاتِ.
The report is sound overall. We checked the records.

If the first statement naturally raises the unspoken question “By what was this established?”, the second may be an instance of explanatory resumption (istiʾnāf bayānī). It provides the implied answer without a coordinating wāw, thereby preserving the underlying question-and-answer relation.

By contrast, in a narrative merely listing two independent events, the same forms might be understood differently. Punctuation or the absence of wāw cannot by itself prove resumption; the auditor's plausible implied question and the function of the next clause must both be established.