وَيَجُوزُ فِي الْكُلِّ تَقْدِيمُ أَخْبَارِهَا عَلَى أَسْمَائِهَا، نَحْوُ: «كَانَ قَائِمًا زَيْدٌ».
Translation: For all these verbs, the khabar may come before their ism, as in “Kāna qāʾiman Zaydun,” with the predicate placed first.
Predicate fronting changes word order without reversing case: «قَائِمًا» stays accusative khabar kāna and «زَيْدٌ» stays nominative ism kāna.
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The Ism of Kāna and Its Sisters
وَيَجُوزُ فِي الْكُلِّ تَقْدِيمُ أَخْبَارِهَا عَلَى أَسْمَائِهَا، نَحْوُ: «كَانَ قَائِمًا زَيْدٌ».
Translation: For all these verbs, the khabar may come before their ism, as in “Kāna qāʾiman Zaydun,” with the predicate placed first.
Predicate fronting changes word order without reversing case: «قَائِمًا» stays accusative khabar kāna and «زَيْدٌ» stays nominative ism kāna.