Mafʿūl Mā Lam Yusamma Fāʿiluhu — The Passive Subject

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• In «ضُرِبَ زَيْدٌ», what is «زَيْدٌ»?
• What is the case of «زَيْدًا» in the active sentence?
• Choose the correct passive of «كَتَبَ الطَّالِبُ الدَّرْسَ».
• What is the common modern term for the source heading?
• How is «كُتِبَ» classified?
• What marks the nominative of «زَيْدٌ»?
• What marks the nominative dual «الْبَابَانِ»?
• What marks «الْمُعَلِّمُونَ» as nominative?
• Why is the verb singular in «فُتِحَ الْبَابَانِ»?
• What is the final alif of «ضُرِبَا»?
• What is wāw al-jamāʿa in «كُرِّمُوا»?
• What is nūn al-niswa in «كُرِّمْنَ»?
• Why is the tāʾ in «كُرِّمَتْ فَاطِمَةُ»?
• What is «يُكْتَبُ»?
• Choose the regular triliteral past passive of «فَتَحَ».
• Choose the present passive of «يَكْتُبُ».
• Parse «الْقَلَمِ» in the passive sentence.
• What is «الْكِتَابُ» in «قُرِئَ الْكِتَابُ»?
• Which is the passive past of Form IV «أَكْرَمَ»?
• Parse initial «زَيْدٌ» in «زَيْدٌ ضُرِبَ».
• What changes when «زَيْدٌ» precedes the passive verb?
• What must “whose agent is not named” imply?
• Parse «الْأَبْوَابُ».
• The book relates agreement of the passive subject to which earlier rules?
• Choose standard verb-initial Arabic for “Two doors were opened.”
• What is the inflectional status of «كُتِبَ»?
• Why is «يُكْتَبُ» indicative/nominative in its own inflection?
• What serves as passive subject within «كُرِّمْنَ»?
• Choose a standard passive verb followed by an overt sound masculine plural.
• The striker is overtly named in «ضُرِبَ زَيْدٌ».
• The passive subject is nominative.
• A singular passive verb can precede an overt dual passive subject.
• The wāw in «كُرِّمُوا» is always an accusative object.
• Passive voice necessarily means the speaker does not know the agent.
• The pen is the passive subject in «كُتِبَ الدَّرْسُ بِالْقَلَمِ».
• In «زَيْدٌ ضُرِبَ», Zayd can be the topic and an implicit pronoun the passive subject.
• The source refers passive-subject number and gender agreement back to the fāʿil rules.