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1. Sentences are called incomplete, in which either the subject or the predicate or beth must in some way be supplied from the context. Besides the instances enumerated in (omission of the personal pronoun when subject of a participial clause) and the periphrases for negative attributes, this description includes certain (noun-) clauses introduced by  (see b below), and also a number of exclamations of the most varied kinds (see c below).

Rem. Incomplete sentences are very common in Chronicles, but are mostly due to the bad condition of the text; cf. Driver, 6, p. 537, no. 27. Thus in b restore, with the LXX, before ; in 35:21 add , with the LXX, after and read  for ; in  and 28:21 the pronoun  is wanted as subject, and in 30:9 the predicate ; cf. also the unusual expressions in,  (ye were not present?), , , 12 (bis), 18:3.

2. The demonstrative particle, may be used either absolutely (as a kind of interjection, cf. ) before complete noun-or verbal-clauses, e.g.  ; 37:7, 48:21, , , or may take the pronoun, which would be the natural subject of a noun-clause, in the form of a suffix, see. Whether these suffixes are to be regarded as in the accusative has been shown to be doubtful in. However, in the case of the analogy of the corresponding Arabic demonstrative particle ’inna (followed by an accusative of the noun) is significant. If with a suffix and a following adjective or participle (see the examples in  and q) forms a noun-clause, the subject proper, to which  with the suffix refers, must, strictly speaking, be supplied again before the predicate. Sometimes, however, the pronoun referring to the subject is wanting, and the simple takes the place of the