Verbs of Praise and Blame: Niʿma, Ḥabbadhā, Biʾsa, Sāʾa

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• What are verbs of praise and blame conventionally used for?
• Which pair contains only praise expressions?
• Which pair contains only blame expressions?
• What is the verbal subject in niʿma al-rajulu Zaydun?
• How is Zaydun labelled in niʿma al-rajulu Zaydun?
• Why is al-rajulu nominative in the example?
• Which word is the subject in niʿma ghulāmu al-rajuli Zaydun?
• What is the role of al-rajuli in the iḍāfah example?
• What is the subject in niʿma rajulan Zaydun?
• What does rajulan do in niʿma rajulan Zaydun?
• What is the makhṣūṣ in niʿma rajulan Zaydun?
• Which has an overt al-definite subject?
• Which uses the head of an iḍāfah as the subject?
• Which part is the praising verb in ḥabbadhā Zaydun?
• What is the subject in ḥabbadhā Zaydun?
• What is the role of Zaydun in ḥabbadhā Zaydun?
• Why does ḥabbadhā remain unchanged with Fāṭimatu?
• What is rajulan in ḥabbadhā rajulan Zaydun?
• What is the function of the final rajulan?
• What is rākiban in ḥabbadhā rākiban Zaydun?
• In the commentary’s parsing, what is the ṣāḥib al-ḥāl?
• Why does rajulayni end in yāʾ in this example?
• What is the nominative sign of al-ṭālibāni?
• What does biʾsa express here?
• Identify the subject of biʾsa al-rajulu Zaydun.
• What is the subject in the iḍāfah blame construction?
• What is rajulan in biʾsa rajulan Zaydun?
• What does sāʾa do in sāʾa al-rajulu Zaydun?
• Which is the muḍāf ilayh after sāʾa?
• Where is the subject in sāʾa rajulan Zaydun?
• Which sentence illustrates dhā as the subject?
• Where does tamyīz clarify a hidden subject?
• Which word is the makhṣūṣ in biʾsa rajulan Khālidun?
• What do niʿma, biʾsa and sāʾa share in these constructions?
• Which common parse accounts for nominative Zaydun?
• Which is a correct careful statement about fa-niʿimmā hiya?
• Which is an ordinary positive predication rather than a fixed praise verb construction?
• What is the contrast between rajulan and rākiban after ḥabbadhā?
• Which broad section follows this chapter in the source?
• Zaydun is the fāʿil of niʿma in the sentence.
• Rajulan is accusative tamyīz in this example.
• Ghulāmu is both subject and muḍāf.
• Al-rajuli is the nominative subject of niʿma.
• Dhā in ḥabbadhā is a demonstrative noun.
• Dhā must change when the makhṣūṣ is feminine.
• Rajulan remains tamyīz when placed after Zaydun.
• Rākiban is tamyīz in this example.
• The commentary makes dhā the possessor of ḥāl.
• The yāʾ on rajulayni here indicates genitive.
• Al-rajulu is the nominative subject after biʾsa.
• Rajulan is the nominative subject in biʾsa rajulan Zaydun.
• Sāʾa is a praise verb in the given construction.
• The makhṣūṣ can be separate from the grammatical subject.
• Fa-niʿimmā hiya is an entire Qurʾānic verse.
• The commentary records more than one grammatical analysis of mā in fa-niʿimmā.
• Every positive adjective sentence must be a special praise verb construction.
• Niʿma and biʾsa differ in value but can share the same nominative subject pattern.
• The makhṣūṣ after ḥabbadhā must itself be the subject.
• In niʿma rajulan Zaydun, the specific praised person is Zayd.