كُنْتَ أَنْتَ الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ.
Kunta: defective past kāna with -ta as its nominative noun; anta: in the book’s context a separating pronoun (also analysed as emphasis of -ta); ar-raqība: accusative predicate; ʿalayhim: a prepositional phrase linked to the predicate.
Do not count anta as a new subject while overlooking -ta, which already serves as kāna’s noun.
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Pronouns: definitions, forms, usage, and parsing
كُنْتَ أَنْتَ الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ.
Kunta: defective past kāna with -ta as its nominative noun; anta: in the book’s context a separating pronoun (also analysed as emphasis of -ta); ar-raqība: accusative predicate; ʿalayhim: a prepositional phrase linked to the predicate.
Do not count anta as a new subject while overlooking -ta, which already serves as kāna’s noun.