LessonsAl-Ḥāl: Definition, Its Referent, Governing Element and TypesQuiz

وَقَدْ تَكُونُ الْحَالُ جُمْلَةً خَبَرِيَّةً، نَحْوُ: «جَاءَنِي زَيْدٌ وَغُلَامُهُ رَاكِبٌ، أَوْ يَرْكَبُ غُلَامُهُ».
Translation: A ḥāl may also be an informative/declarative clause: “Zayd came to me while his servant was riding,” expressed with a nominal or a verbal sentence.

Here there need not be a single visible accusative word: the entire clause occupies the accusative syntactic position of ḥāl.

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Al-Ḥāl: Definition, Its Referent, Governing Element and Types

وَقَدْ تَكُونُ الْحَالُ جُمْلَةً خَبَرِيَّةً، نَحْوُ: «جَاءَنِي زَيْدٌ وَغُلَامُهُ رَاكِبٌ، أَوْ يَرْكَبُ غُلَامُهُ».
Translation: A ḥāl may also be an informative/declarative clause: “Zayd came to me while his servant was riding,” expressed with a nominal or a verbal sentence.

Here there need not be a single visible accusative word: the entire clause occupies the accusative syntactic position of ḥāl.