Exclamation in English and Arabic: a contrastive Study dr. Nadia Amin Hasan

 
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The sky, the mountains and the earth are God's creatures. They glorify God and feel great anger for 
man's sins and ingratitude. They feel even more furious when some disbelievers claim the presence of a son 
for God. This great anger is expressed in the following verse: 
Takadu samawatu ya-tafatar-n min-
hu wa tanšaq-u
l-?ardu wa taxeru el-jebalu hadda  (Qur'an: 19- 90) 
the heavens are almost about to be rent asunder thereof and the earth cloven and the mountains to collapse, 
razed (completely) 
The sky and the earth's anger is expressed by being about to be split 
The mountains are about to break down to pieces. (Ghali, 2008: 311) 
Ibn abbas says,' the earth and the sky are so frightened and terrified of man's atheism that they are about to 
annihilate./ disappear/break down in anger. This is an indication that their anger has reached an extreme 
point. 
What asserts the scalar nature of Arabic exclamatives is likening them to comparative adjectives. 
Contarino (1974: 11), as noted by Ryding (ibid), describes the word following maa as 'elative in the 
accusative of exclamation, that is, as a comparative adjective'.