Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Hundred and One Rules in Arabic Grammar! The Equational Sentences. ============================= As indicated earlier, an equational sentence in Arabic is a sentence without a verb. It consists of two parts, a subject and a predicate. The subject could be (a) a demonstrative pronoun, (b) a personal pronoun, or (c) a noun, while the predicate may be either of these, as well as (c) an adjective, (d) an adverb, or (e) a prepositional phrase.
(a) a subject demonstrative pronoun.هذهِ کليَّة ٌ (b) a subject personal pronoun. أنا محمدٌ (c) a subject noun الاستاذ ُ في الصفِّ. (a) a predicate personal pronoun ** ** الاستاذ ُ أنا. (b) a predicate noun. الاستاذ ُ محمدّ ٌ (c) a predicate indefinite adjective ** الاستاذ ُ** جديدٌ. (d) a predicate adverb الاستاذ ُهناكَ. ** (e) a predicate prep. phrase الاستاذ ُ فِي المکتبِ.** A pronoun of separation could be added in example (b) above, where both the subject and the predicate are nouns.