he was engrossed in his work1
33 Arabic phrases of the type nominal sentences where the predicate is a verbal sentence translated to English..
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An Arabic nominal sentence consists of two parts: a subject and a predicate. The predicate describes the subject. The subject is a noun that is definite. In this type of nominal sentence, the predicate is a verbal sentence that refers to the subject in some way. The subject comes before the verb, otherwise it would be verbal sentence and not a nominal sentence.