وَالضَّابِطَةُ فِيهِ أَنَّهُ حَيْثُ يَجُوزُ أَنْ يُقَامَ الْمَعْطُوفُ مَقَامَ الْمَعْطُوفِ عَلَيْهِ، جَازَ الْعَطْفُ، وَحَيْثُ لَا، فَلَا.
Translation: A useful criterion is whether the second expression can replace the first in its grammatical position. Where it can, coordination is allowed; otherwise not.
Test the construction by placing the new term where the old one stood. Does it fulfil the same syntactic function without breaking the construction?
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Coordination (ʿAṭf bi-l-Ḥurūf): Rules and Parsing
وَالضَّابِطَةُ فِيهِ أَنَّهُ حَيْثُ يَجُوزُ أَنْ يُقَامَ الْمَعْطُوفُ مَقَامَ الْمَعْطُوفِ عَلَيْهِ، جَازَ الْعَطْفُ، وَحَيْثُ لَا، فَلَا.
Translation: A useful criterion is whether the second expression can replace the first in its grammatical position. Where it can, coordination is allowed; otherwise not.
Test the construction by placing the new term where the old one stood. Does it fulfil the same syntactic function without breaking the construction?