Watch summary video (under 3.30 min) The Simple Sentence (Non-Verbal).   What is a sentence?                    Subject Predicate   Sentence   With a small alteration we can transform a noun-adjective phrase into an equational sentence (also referred to as the nominal sentence). Magic? Maybe. Let's see how… Can you recall the noun-adjective phrase?...         1- In the Arabic noun-adjective phrase below both the noun and its adjective are indefinite, feminine, and singular. Example of a noun-adjective phrase   سَيِّدَةٌ كَبيرَةٌ سِتّْ كِبيرَةْ 1  sitt kibiira an elderly lady OR/ 2- In the Arabic noun-adjective phrase below both the noun and its adjective are definite, masculine, and singular. Example of a noun-adjective phrase   اَلرَّجُلُ الكَّبيرُ الرّاجِل الكِّبيرْ 2  ir raagil il kibiir   the elderly man     Keep going! You're almost there.

Review… A noun-adjective phrase has both the noun and its adjective agree in definiteness, gender, and count. There is noun-adjective agreement. Count refers to the singular or plural form of the noun or adjective. For a noun-adjective phrase both the noun and its adjective must be singular OR plural.

The equational sentence explained with examples

So how do we transform the above two noun-adjective phrases into sentences? Simple. 1- Make the noun into a subject by making it definite. 2- Make the adjective into a predicate by making it indefinite. Now, we no longer have noun-adjective agreement but subject-predicate disagreement. The subject and predicate do not agree in definiteness.   Example of a sentence اَلسَّيِّدَةُ كَبيرَةٌ اِلسِّتْ كِبيرَةْ  3  Is sitt kibiira. The lady is old.     اَلرَّجُلُ كَبيرٌ اِلرَّاجِلْ كِبيرْ  4  Ir raagil kibiir. The man is old. ((Did you notice for the first time there is a full stop. This is because we produced our very FIRST sentence)). Mabrouk! = Congratulations!

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