جَاءَ رَجُلٌ صَالِحٌ: ṣāliḥun is an adjective specifying which kind of man came.
الرَّجُلُ صَالِحٌ: ṣāliḥun is the predicate, making an assertion about the definite subject.
Use syntactic structure and agreement, not the adjective’s meaning alone.
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An Indefinite Adjective versus a Predicate
The Tawābiʿ and Naʿt: Direct and Relational Attributes
جَاءَ رَجُلٌ صَالِحٌ: ṣāliḥun is an adjective specifying which kind of man came.
الرَّجُلُ صَالِحٌ: ṣāliḥun is the predicate, making an assertion about the definite subject.
Use syntactic structure and agreement, not the adjective’s meaning alone.