Arabic and English Sentence Patterns: A Comparative Guide

66 | P a g e 75 Modal Future is used here to express the combination of the present- tense modal will and the infinitive. It is a concession to the semantic futurity of the modal. See also note 5. 76 Or ﺳَﺘَﺪْرُسُ since the particle ﺳَﻮْفَ and the prefix سَ are grammatically and semantically equivalent. 77 https://goo.gl/kdGqGh 78 https://goo.gl/hHFhwS 79 https://goo.gl/h2JkwH 80 http://www.saaid.net/daeyat/sara/3.htm?print_it=1 81 https://goo.gl/V8e8bU 82 https://www.anbaa.info/?p=29525 83 https://goo.gl/TF6Hb5 84 https://goo.gl/MI6aMa 85 https://goo.gl/eJ90XN 86 https://goo.gl/NSM8rZ 87 https://goo.gl/OsJNhk 88 https://goo.gl/XTZZuy 89 http://www.akhbarona.com/politic/183664.html 90 https://goo.gl/xzQKZq 91 See pp. 14ff. 92 http://www.hekams.com/?id=3514 93 http://alqabas.com/382929/ 94 As in “The puppy slept” vs. “The puppy ate its food.” Note that some verbs, such as ate , can be transitive, as in the latter example, or intransitive, as in “The puppy ate.” 95 Kolln, Rhetorical Grammar 218.