Ch. 8 Supplements

Requirements

Others

• The interrogative and the article look similar. But there are ways to distinguish them:
• The interrogative occurs only at clause-initial; therefore, if the Hey is not at clause-initial it has to be the article.
• If the letter following Hey has dagesh forte, it must be the article.
• The article never spells with Hateph Pathach. If the vowel under Hey is Hateph Pathach, it must be the interrogative.