A Hundred and One Rules in Arabic Grammar!

10. Arabic Syntax. ==================

According to Siibawayh words are nounإسم , verbفِعل , or particleحَرف intended for items which are neither noun nor verb. The basic difference between the three parts is the declension,** الأعراب** .In principle, only nouns and their adjectives have case endings to indicate their syntactic function in a sentence. This classification remained intact throughout the history of the Arabic grammatical traditions. The noun category was defined either as a word with certain syntactic characteristics such as its combinability with the definite article or as a word denoting an essence. Unlike the definition of the noun in Western grammar, the Arabic noun category includes adjectives, pronouns and even a number of prepositions and adverbs. The category of the verb was defined as a word that denotes an action and could be combined with some particles. The particle category includes the remaining words, and their function is to assist other words in their semantic function in the sentence.