When is the second sentence in “taʾakhkhara al-ʿamalu. Ishtadda al-maṭaru” explanatory resumption?
Supplementary Practice 12: Rhetorical Evidence, Competing Analyses and Reasoned Revision
- When it answers the implied question, “Why was the work delayed?”
- Whenever both sentences share one subject
- When the second sentence negates an entire class
- When the second sentence contains a lexical substitute