LessonsSupplementary Practice 7: Editing Expressions, Weighing Context and Rhetorical CritiqueQuiz

قَالَ الْمُتَحَدِّثُ: «سَافَرَ خَالِدٌ». وَصَلَ عَمْرٌو.
The speaker said, “Khalid traveled.” Amr arrived.

The second report belongs to the narrator, not to the cited speaker. Moving the quotation boundary or coordinating within the wrong scope can falsely make the speaker responsible for reporting Amr's arrival. This is not a cosmetic issue: it changes attribution.

Before deciding faṣl or waṣl, establish the boundary of quoted speech and the referent of each predication, then identify where any conjunction operates.

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Coordination can change the scope of reported speech

Supplementary Practice 7: Editing Expressions, Weighing Context and Rhetorical Critique

قَالَ الْمُتَحَدِّثُ: «سَافَرَ خَالِدٌ». وَصَلَ عَمْرٌو.
The speaker said, “Khalid traveled.” Amr arrived.

The second report belongs to the narrator, not to the cited speaker. Moving the quotation boundary or coordinating within the wrong scope can falsely make the speaker responsible for reporting Amr's arrival. This is not a cosmetic issue: it changes attribution.

Before deciding faṣl or waṣl, establish the boundary of quoted speech and the referent of each predication, then identify where any conjunction operates.