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Ch21 — Qal Infinitive Absolute: Exercises

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Exercise Description
Parsing Drill This 25-item parsing drill covers Qal IA forms across all major root classes in three parts. Part A presents emphatic pairs (IA + finite verb of same root): students identify the IA, name the root and class, and state the function. Part B presents standalone IA forms (imperatival and manner/progressive uses) without a paired finite verb. Part C requires discrimination among IA, IC, Imperative, Imperfect, and Perfect — using vowel patterns (qamets vs. shewa under R1, holem-waw vs. patach) and context clues (presence/absence of preposition, paired verb) to identify each form.
Passage Exercise This passage exercise presents 15 highlighted IA forms drawn from eight OT passages spanning Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Passages were selected to cover all four major IA functions: emphatic pairs (Gen 2:16–17, Exo 3:7, Gen 44:28, Deu 6:17, Deu 8:19, Num 15:35), imperatival IA (Exo 20:8, Deu 5:12), and paired manner/progressive IAs (Gen 8:3, 8:5, 26:13). Students identify root, root class, function, and full gloss for each highlighted IA form.
Qal Ia Paradigm Drill Write the Qal Infinitive Absolute for 6 root classes from memory.