LessonsSupplementary Practice 11: Report, Objection-Reply and InstructionQuiz

إِنَّمَا نَقَلَهَا إِلَى مَكَانٍ آمِنٍ. كَانَ الْمَوْضِعُ الْأَوَّلُ رَطْبًا.
He merely moved them to a safe place. The original location was damp.

The first statement naturally raises the question 'Why were they moved?'. The second answers with the reason for the transfer. This is an explanatory resumption, not an emphatic restatement of the first proposition.

A proposed implied question must be licensed by the context. Merely putting two sentences together does not establish istiʾnāf bayānī unless the second answers a question the first could reasonably elicit.

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Recovering a plausible implied question

Supplementary Practice 11: Report, Objection-Reply and Instruction

إِنَّمَا نَقَلَهَا إِلَى مَكَانٍ آمِنٍ. كَانَ الْمَوْضِعُ الْأَوَّلُ رَطْبًا.
He merely moved them to a safe place. The original location was damp.

The first statement naturally raises the question 'Why were they moved?'. The second answers with the reason for the transfer. This is an explanatory resumption, not an emphatic restatement of the first proposition.

A proposed implied question must be licensed by the context. Merely putting two sentences together does not establish istiʾnāf bayānī unless the second answers a question the first could reasonably elicit.