| The resumptive pronoun is not used much in English 6 | Note in English these words are classed as pronouns but are nouns in Arabic |
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| A group words like this is known as a clause and as it is related back to a word in the sentence it is called a relative clause | The describing sentence must have a pronoun which refers to the noun that is being described |
Relative pronouns in Arabic behave in a similar fashion.
| For example: "The boy whose hair is long came" | The word that connects the clause to the word they are relating to is the relative pronoun |
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| The red word " that" is the relative pronoun, and the blue word " they" is the resumptive pronoun, the underlined text is the Relative Clause | In example 3, if the non-intelligent being is placed in the place of an intelligent being |
It is used to refer to: 1.
18| gods by the idol worshippers | It completes the meaning of the relative sentence |
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| "The sandwich that I ate was delicious | And of them are those that move on their bellies, and of them are those that walk on two legs Quran 24:45• The words hair is long describe "the boy" and in the second example the words I ate describe the "the sandwich" |
" The words whose and that are relative pronouns.
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