LessonsSimple and Compound Expressions: Terms and Their Semantic DivisionsQuiz

المركب التام ضربان، يقال لأحدهما: الخبر والقضية
Complete compound speech is of two kinds; one is called khabar or qaḍiyyah, an assertion or proposition.

Khabar/proposition: reports something whose content can be true or false, such as “the sky is above us.”
Inshāʾ: complete discourse not intended as a report, including command, prohibition, question, wish, hope and vocative address.

“Iqraʾ”: Read! (command).
“Lā takdhib”: Do not lie! (prohibition).
“Hal ḥaḍara Zayd?”: Did Zayd arrive? (question).

These are complete utterances but are not themselves true or false in the same way that propositions are.

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Complete compounds: assertion and non-assertion

Simple and Compound Expressions: Terms and Their Semantic Divisions

المركب التام ضربان، يقال لأحدهما: الخبر والقضية
Complete compound speech is of two kinds; one is called khabar or qaḍiyyah, an assertion or proposition.

Khabar/proposition: reports something whose content can be true or false, such as “the sky is above us.”
Inshāʾ: complete discourse not intended as a report, including command, prohibition, question, wish, hope and vocative address.

“Iqraʾ”: Read! (command).
“Lā takdhib”: Do not lie! (prohibition).
“Hal ḥaḍara Zayd?”: Did Zayd arrive? (question).

These are complete utterances but are not themselves true or false in the same way that propositions are.