<html><head></head><body dir="ltr" lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"<span style="line-height: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So perhaps a more accurate way of describing the situation is that some nouns and verbs appear in two forms.</span><span style="line-height: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="line-height: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">One form is almost always used at the end of a pasuq and in the middle with an etnahta, but is also used in other places where the traditional reading (the Masorah) indicates the end of a clause,"</span></div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif">So are pausal forms indeedconforming to some kind of rule (prescriptive) even when they appear EG on a Tipchah?</font></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif">Or are pausal forms sometimes pausal, but not necessarily so?</font></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif">And can it be that sometimes Pauses do not trigger pausal forms?</font></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif">EG Attah (you singular) seems to come in 3 flavors I know</font></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"> </span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">1. atToH mil'ra</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">2. ATtoh mi"'eil (EG hachi ochi ATtah, R'uven b'chori ATtah)</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">3. O'toh - 2 kamatz's. (not sure if in Tanach)</span></div></body></html>