وَإِلَى ثَلَاثَةِ مَفَاعِيلَ، نَحْوَ أَعْلَمَ اللَّهُ زَيْدًا عَمْرًا فَاضِلًا
Translation: Or it can take three objects, as in the author’s illustrative sentence: God informed Zayd that ʿAmr was learned.
The author illustrates a three-object structure. The sentence is a hypothetical syntactic example, not a report of a historical or religious occurrence.
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Three Objects: Original Text
Intransitive and Transitive Verbs: One, Two, Three Objects
وَإِلَى ثَلَاثَةِ مَفَاعِيلَ، نَحْوَ أَعْلَمَ اللَّهُ زَيْدًا عَمْرًا فَاضِلًا
Translation: Or it can take three objects, as in the author’s illustrative sentence: God informed Zayd that ʿAmr was learned.
The author illustrates a three-object structure. The sentence is a hypothetical syntactic example, not a report of a historical or religious occurrence.