Letter forms, long vowels and tāʾ marbūṭa in Arabic

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• How many forms can an Arabic letter take depending on where it sits in a word?
• Which of these letters NEVER joins the letter that follows it?
• Which letter is written here, at the start of a word: هـ?
• In بَيْتٌ (a house), which letter sits in the middle of the word?
• Which word ends in a tāʾ marbūṭa (ة)?
• What does the final ة of طَاوِلَةٌ (a table) tell you?
• The letters ا, د, ر and و never join the following letter.
• In دَارٌ (a house), all the letters are joined together.