What differs in “dakhala Zaydun wa-huwa yabtasimu” from the preceding verbal circumstantial example?

Supplementary Practice 9: How Small Wording Changes Alter Rhetorical Meaning

• Wāw introduces a nominal clause with huwa as subject and yabtasimu as predicate
• Yabtasimu becomes necessarily past tense
• It becomes impossible to identify whose state is described
• The wāw must be an oath particle