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وَاعْلَمْ: أَنَّ لَهُمْ ضَمِيرًا غَائِبًا يَقَعُ قَبْلَ جُمْلَةٍ تُفَسِّرُهُ، وَيُسَمَّى «ضَمِيرَ الشَّأْنِ» فِي الْمُذَكَّرِ، وَ«ضَمِيرَ الْقِصَّةِ» فِي الْمُؤَنَّثِ.
Translation: A third-person pronoun may precede an explanatory sentence: in the masculine it is called the pronoun of affair, and in the feminine the pronoun of narrative.

A pronoun of affair can introduce a matter that is explained by the following full sentence rather than refer back to a previously named person. The feminine counterpart is called a pronoun of narrative.

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Pronouns of affair and narrative

Pronouns: definitions, forms, usage, and parsing

وَاعْلَمْ: أَنَّ لَهُمْ ضَمِيرًا غَائِبًا يَقَعُ قَبْلَ جُمْلَةٍ تُفَسِّرُهُ، وَيُسَمَّى «ضَمِيرَ الشَّأْنِ» فِي الْمُذَكَّرِ، وَ«ضَمِيرَ الْقِصَّةِ» فِي الْمُؤَنَّثِ.
Translation: A third-person pronoun may precede an explanatory sentence: in the masculine it is called the pronoun of affair, and in the feminine the pronoun of narrative.

A pronoun of affair can introduce a matter that is explained by the following full sentence rather than refer back to a previously named person. The feminine counterpart is called a pronoun of narrative.