A SURVEY OF AL- JUMAL AL-ASHARTIYYAH (THE CONDITIONAL SENTENCES) IN ARABIC LANGUAGE

Abstract

An aspect of grammar in Arabic language studies is known as al-Jumal al-shartiyyah (the Arabic conditional sentences). The formation of this conditional sentence in Arabic requires some technicalities to be employed in Arabic conversations with others who are literates in Arabic language. This paper aims at exposing the readers to the conventional rules and the guiding principles to be adopted while forming any Arabic conditional sentence, the functionality of the particles initiating any of the Arabic conditional sentence patterns as well as the interpretation of the meaning when used in the sentences. The paper, therefore, adopts the theoretical and descriptive approach to establish that Arabic conditional sentence is a clause which performs the interactive roles between the particles of conditions and rest parts of the sentence, with strict observance of all the grammatical principles to play save from committing grammatical blunders in the public. The study therefore recommends that teachers of Arabic should expose the students to the knowledge of grammatical parsing called Ilm-al ‘Ir b, so that both the obvious (zahir) and hidden (muqadar) aspect of the traditional jussive mood could be easily identified in Arabic sentence pattern if any conditional particle is used in such sentence constructed in Arabic language. Students should therefore be made to understand that the particles of Arabic conditional sentences are traditionally the initiators of any al-Jumal al-shartiyyah in Arabic Language.