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Elementary Arabic A Grammar

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ISBN-10: 0486441768

ISBN-13: 9780486441764

Edition: 2005 (Abridged)

Authors: Reynold A. Nicholson, Frederic Du Pre Thornton

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Ideal for beginners, this abridged version of William Wright's classic Grammar of the Arabic Language offers students an easy-to-use reference that omits superfluous details but retains the essentials. The three-part treatment covers orthography, parts of speech, and syntax — all in concise and accessible terms. An indispensable companion volume for readers of Arabic texts.
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Book details

List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.572

Orthography and Orthoepy
The consonants
The vowels and diphthongs
Other orthographic signs
Sukun rest
Tashdid strengthening
Hamazah compression
Waclah union
Maddah extension
The syllable
The accent
The numerals
Etymology or the Parts of Speech
Triliteral verbs
The first or ground form
The second form
The third form
The fourth form
The fifth form
The sixth form
The seventh form
The eighth form
The tenth form
Quadriliteral verbs
The voices
The states (tenses) of the verb
The moods
The numbers, persons and genders
Strong verbs
Nominative personal pronouns
States and moods (active)
The passive voice
The derived forms
Doubled verbs
Weak verbs
Hamzated
Containing [characters not reproducible] or [characters not reproducible]
Doubly weak
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Accusative pronominal suffixes
The noun, substantive and adjective
Nomina verbi, abstract and concrete
Time and place
Instrument
Agentis et patientis (ground form)
Other adjectives Do
The elative
Agentis et patientis (derived forms)
Adjectives from doubled and weak verbs
Individuality
The relative adjective
The gender of nouns
The numbers of nouns
Collectives
Declension of triptotes and diptotes
Dependent pronominal suffixes
The numbers, cardinal and ordinal
Demonstrative pronouns
The article [characters not reproducible]
Conjunctive and interrogative pronouns
Indefinite pronouns
The particles
Prepositions
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Interjections
Paradigms of the verbs
Syntax
The Perfect State
The Pluperfect
After [characters not reproducible] etc.
The Imperfect State
Indicative
Subjunctive
Jussive
Energetic
The Moods
Subjunctive
Indicative
Jussive
Energetic
Imperative
Government by the verb
The objective complement
The absolute object
The use of [characters not reproducible]
Elimination of the verb
The accusative after [characters not reproducible] etc.
The vocative
The accusative after [characters not reproducible]
The adverbial complement
The verb [characters not reproducible] complete and incomplete
The sisters of kana
The adverbial accusative
Government by prepositions
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The compound prepositions
The infinitive noun
Concrete verbal nouns
The construct state
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Superlatives as substantives
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Improper annexation
No word can intervene
Definite and indefinite annexation
Apposition of the material
Annexation instead of apposition
The cardinal numbers
The parts of a sentence
The subject and predicate
Compound sentences
The verb "to be" in nominal sentences is not expressed
The pronoun of separation
The indefinite inchoative
The pronoun of corroboration
Use of [characters not reproducible] in a nominal sentence
Impersonal expressions, nomina patientis, and neuter plurals
Complements of the subject and predicate
Reflexive pronominal suffixes
Appositives
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[characters not reproducible] without reflexive meaning, and other classes of appositives ([characters not reproducible] etc.)
Apposition of verbs
Concord in gender and number between the parts of a sentence
In verbal sentences
In nominal sentences
Negative and prohibitive sentences
Interrogative sentences
Relative sentences
Copulative sentences
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Adversative, restrictive and exceptive sentences
Conditional and hypothetical sentences
Prosody