When is tatmīm the better analysis of “bi-diqqatin” in “faḥaṣa al-muhandisu al-jisra bi-diqqatin”?
Supplementary Practice 12: Rhetorical Evidence, Competing Analyses and Reasoned Revision
- When the precision of inspection is a useful additional detail
- When it necessarily negates an unwanted inference
- When the first statement has no meaning
- When all the words are pleonastic