Question on Plurals

[riyaaaz]

Book 1, page 72, Section 5, Exercise Number 6,

الفلّاحُون في الحُقُولِ وأبْناؤُهُم في المدرسةِ
In the first part of the sentence mubtaba matches with khabar in count, why there is no match in the second part. Shouldn’t it be?
The farmers are in the fields and the their children are in the schools
Can someone please explain?

JazakAllah

[irf2k]

Assalamu alaikum and Eid mubarak,

The predicate must match in count with the subject, only when the predicate (khabar) is one word. In these sentences the khabar is NOT one workd, it is shibhu-jumlah.

The translation would be:
The farmers are in the fields (i.e., each farmer is in his field, all farmers did not go same field) and the students are in the school (i.e. all students went do same one school).

Wasalam

[riyaaaz]

Walaikum assalam and Eid mubarak to you also brother.

JazakAllahuKhair