Al-Kitaab

Tagged by Rob:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag three people.

Here we go, then – from this terribly exciting tome:

When it occurs at the beginning of a sentence, إﻥﹼ marks the following noun as the topic of the sentence. إﻥﹼ occurs frequently in expository texts (and less often in narrative ones) because the topic or topics under discussion (rather than actions or events) are the focus of the text.

Gramatically, إﻥﹼ belongs to a group of articles called إﻥﹼ و أﺨوﺍﺘﻬﺎ.

You asked!

Anyhoo – next to be tagged: David, Tom and, umm, someone else. Anyone? Post in the comments, if you feel like it.

And for this post, I learned a new skill: bi-directional, bi-lingual, multi-character-set HTML coding. Fun.