The two patterns express similar astonishment: mā afʿalahu and afʿil bihi. Their morphology and syntactic analysis are different.
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The Two Patterns Side by Side
The Two Exclamatory Verbs: Forms, Rules and Parsing
The two patterns express similar astonishment: mā afʿalahu and afʿil bihi. Their morphology and syntactic analysis are different.