A Completer Sentence

Syntax

Subjunctive Cases of a Verb

Jussive Cases of a Verb

Nominative Cases of a Verb

Nominative Cases of a Noun

Actor

Subject of the Predicate

Incohatives and Predicates

Incohative of a Verb Kana or One of its sisters and the Predicate of the Preposition Inna or One of its Sisters

Accusative Cases of a Noun

Objective Compliments and Cognates

Adverbal Qualifications and Adverbal Qualifications of Time and Place

Ma’ Accusative and the Exceptive After Ila

The Hāl Accusative

Specificative

Vocative

A Predicate of the Verb Kana of an Inchoative of the Preposition Inna

Genitive Cases of a Noun

Hiding the Vowel Signs of a Declinable Noun

Adjectives and Conjunctives

Corroboratives and Substitutes

The Vowel Signs of Words and Sentences

A study of syntax of the Arabic language volume 1. Translated by Hamid
Hussein Waqar.


Elementary Arabic Syntax 1

Specificative
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35. What is a specificative?  
 A specificative is a noun mentioned to explain what is meant by the
noun mentioned before it because of its obscurity. For example:
**اشتَرَیتُ** **رطلاً** **زیتاً** (I bought an amount[^1] of oil.) If
one only said: “I bought an amount,” the listener would not know what
was meant. He could have bought an amount of soap, oil or anything else.
But, when he mentions the word oil, the word amount becomes clear and in
this sentence oil is an specificative.

[^1]: A specified weight, in English around 450 grams.


