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الرِّجَالُ قَامَتْ — The men stood. الرِّجَالُ is the mubtadaʾ; the subject of قَامَتْ is the concealed pronoun «هِيَ», and the verbal clause is the predicate.

In الرِّجَالُ قَامُوا, «الرجال» is the mubtadaʾ; «قاموا» is the past verb, wāw al-jamāʿa is its subject, and the verbal clause is the predicate. The book permits both structures.

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Parsing: Two Word Orders with الرِّجَالُ

Rules of the Fāʿil: Explicit Nouns, Pronouns, Number and Gender

الرِّجَالُ قَامَتْ — The men stood. الرِّجَالُ is the mubtadaʾ; the subject of قَامَتْ is the concealed pronoun «هِيَ», and the verbal clause is the predicate.

In الرِّجَالُ قَامُوا, «الرجال» is the mubtadaʾ; «قاموا» is the past verb, wāw al-jamāʿa is its subject, and the verbal clause is the predicate. The book permits both structures.