Well Video Linda.
Ah, that.
So you want to learn how to make your own signing were sentences. Well,
in this video I'm going to show you the basics in that structure as well as
break down the process for creating your own coming up
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Download is a worksheet set for you to practice translating English sentences
into ASL sentences.
And the best part is there's answers in the back so you don't have to guess and
wonder and hope and cross your fingers that you got it right.
You'll know right away.
So you're probably wondering how complex of sentences are we going to do?
You're like, we're shell, dude, I know. Time, topic, comment, please.
I'm ready for something more. I totally understand. I get it.
In order for you to craft your own complex sentences,
you need to have a good solid understanding of the basics in it,
structure the parts of it, why they are what they are and where to put them.
And then you can do the complex sentences. And we're going to do a couple today,
but in future videos I'm going to do even more complex sentences.
So please stick with me today,
bakes or you have it down and then you'll be ready for those complex sentences.
For sure. Remember if you're like, I totally have this,
this is so easy.
Grab the worksheet down below anyway and test herself. If you have it,
you're totally ready.
And I'll let you know when the complex videos are ready for you.
So you can be like
signing Ninja.
Here we go. Let's
look at the two basic structures and then we'll go into some variants.
So you've probably seen this one before, time plus topic, post comment,
and then there's topic plus comment.
And here down below you can see that I have the reference in here.
We'll talk about what a reference isn't just a moment. But here we go.
You can see time plus topic plus comment plus referent or topics.
Please comment,
purse reference or topless plus my friend Paula's comment or topic plus
reference plus comment.
Let's reference and you understand what I mean in just a second. Okay,
so here is time. Time is the tense.
If you need more help with tents,
I do have a full video on tents that you can click up in the upper right corner
and it'll take you there. And here is the topic. It's Hubbuch is the main subject.
Who or what are you talking about?
Now here we have comment and action comment,
an action or the same thing, but it's basically your adjective or your verb.
Um, what's happening to or about the subject or the that you're talking about.
And the reference is referring back to the topic.
It's the sign that you use that refers back to the topic of reference is used
for extra clarity. And um,
it's kind of like making sure your pronouns are correct.
So here we can go back to the slide here where you can see the topic and comment
and the reference.
And you can see sometimes the reference is at the end of the sentence after the
comment. And sometimes you can see it sandwiched between topic and comment.
And you can also see that the reference can be sandwiching the comment or the
action. And so those are some different ways you can do that.
These three examples here, down at the bottom, don't have time in front of them,
but you can put time in there as well.
Now we're going to take some English sentences,
label the parts of each of the sentence,
and then we're going to turn them into ASL sentences together. So here we go.
Is there English sentence? I don't really like fish.
So these are the questions we're gonna ask ourselves when we're looking at the
sentence. So the first question is, is there a time in the sentence,
do you see a tents? And in this sentence there is no time.
There's not a tense really here in the sentence. Okay. So what is the sentences?
Main topic? The main topic is fish.
You might think it's I, but in this case it's not. And for the most part,
your sentences aren't going to have the main topic being I. Okay.
So let's look at the comments. What are we saying about the fish?
We're saying I don't like them. And now the reference is I,
because we're saying that I don't like them.
So let's see what this looks like altogether. We have no time,
so we don't have any time here. And the topic is fish.
And then we add the comment is don't like, and then the reference is I,
so you can see this as the topic plus comment plus referent sentence structure.
You may be wondering about the really, cause it said, I really don't like them.
Now in this instance,
you wouldn't say you wouldn't sign real because it's not the right meaning.
In this instance. You would, you would show that with your face.
So I will, I'm just trying. I really don't like them.
I'm showing them with my non-manual markers.
Now let's look at the next sentence. I'm going to the library tomorrow.
So the first question we're gonna ask ourselves is what is the time?
Is their time in the sentence? And the sentence is,
the time is tomorrow. Okay, what is the sentences main topic.
The library is the main topic of the sentence.
Now what is happening with the library?
What's the comment associated with library going,
going to the library and the referent. I,
I am going to the library now in ASL.
We don't sign too unless we absolutely need to. Um,
or there's not another way of signing the sentence without meaning without that
sign.
And we also do not sign the now if you want some more help with things that you
don't sign as anything were to have a whole lesson dedicated to what not to sign
in. It's all foundations and you can find more information about that in the top
right corner by clicking the eye. Now let's put the sentence all together.
So first we start with time,
which is in this case is tomorrow and the topic is library.
And then here we're going to put the reference right in front of our action,
which is also our comment go. And it's something that you don't sign going.
We just signed go. So altogether, this is tomorrow library. I go.
Now let's do another sentence with multiple comments so you can see how those go
together.
Here's our sentence, my dog as small, Brown and silly.
Now ask yourself, is there a time in a sentence,
clearly there's no time in the sentence, so we write none.
What is the topic of this sentence?
The topic is dog and what is the comment of the sentence?
There are four comments. My small,
Brown and silly. Now in this,
I like to point out that my is the topical comment.
It topical comment is a comment that you can't really separate from the topic
without it losing clarity.
So if I signed dog is my,
his small brown, my silly,
it wouldn't make sense and to keep my with dog and so I label it as topical
comment.
So then I would keep it with dog when I'm translating a sentence and not to move
it somewhere else.
And the reference is it because we're referring back to the dog?
Never remember. He, she it are all the same sign.
It doesn't really matter if I write it or he or she on the paper because I'm
just going to be pointing. So altogether, if this is going to be my dog,
it small, Brown, silly, and that is how we would sign it.
My dog, cause it's a topical comment plus the topic,
my dog it referring right back to that dog.
Because in a regular conversation you're gonna be talking about a lot of things.
So you're pointing back to the dogs to make sure that the person you're signing
to understands that we're saying my dog is small,
Brown as silly and not something else that we were talking about.
So that's why we put that at reference there.
You can also sign it as my dog it small brown,
silly it and make a reference sandwich. And we talk about reference in a,
an an another video. So if you want some more help in understanding with that, um,
be sure to watch that.
Make the first two sentences that we did a little bit more complicated,
not super complicated, just a little bit to here is the first sentence.
I don't really like fish. They're gross.
So we already know that there's no time and we already know the topic is fish
because that's how it was in the first sentence.
Now that we have two comments this time,
first is don't like and the second is gross and the reference.
Now we have two.
We have eye and day because we will want to make sure we're saying I don't like
this and the fish are gross and not saying I am gross.
So now altogether it's going to be fish.
Don't like I they grows.
So we go fish don't like I because we're saying I don't like them and now we're
saying they are gross. So that's super important.
Reference are very important for clarity.
Now the next sentence, I'm going to the library tomorrow to get a new book.
Now we already know the time is tomorrow and now in this sentence we have two
topics can separate the sentence and to really basically being two separate
sentences. But in this case we've put it all together as one thought,
which is why we have two topics.
We have library and we also have book and our comments are go new and get an a
reference is I and altogether tomorrow library,
I go book new borrow.
Now I know you're probably saying, well why are we signing, borrow and not get?
If we signed get, it wouldn't really be clear. I mean it could be,
it could understand it, but really in this instance when you say get,
I'm getting a book at the library, you really mean you're borrowing it,
you're checking it out, you're renting it, it's being loaned out to you.
So to be clear, we're signing borrow. Instead of get,
if you're going to say I'm going to the library to steal a new book,
then you would signed steel.
When you're translating a sentence from English to ASL,
it is so important that you're translating them meaning and not the word.
You don't get so stuck on saying, I am going to get a new book.
I get a get a new book. What are you actually saying?
And that's what you're going to sign.
So in this case we're borrowing a new button.
So here you can see tomorrow library I go, that's one thought book,
New Borrow. That's a whole nother thought, but to make it one long sentence,
we smush it together. Tomorrow Library,
I go book new borough and this is how it's signed.
As I said at the beginning of this video,
learning the basic senate structure is so vital.
Now another tip is you have more than one comment and one of them is an action
sign or a verb as we would say in English.
That is the one you put at the end. So if you have a lot of comments,
it's like adjective, adjective, adjective, adjective, verb, adjective, verb, adjective,
adjective, verb you to put that action at the end of your sentence.
So you have got your time, your topic, your comment,
and if you have an action comment,
put the action comment last and you can put the reference right before the
action,
right after the action or sandwiched in between or you go.
Let me give you some parting advice.
You're going to work on ASL grammar.
You're going to try to translate sentences from English to ASL and sometimes
maybe most of the time when you're first starting out,
it's going to be hard or you're not gonna want to do it.
You're going to want to give up. Number one, don't give up.
It gets easier every time you do it. Number two,
translating sentences from English to ASL on paper.
Breaking it down like we did here in this video is going to be so helpful for
you. Number three, you're going to be tempted to just go,
I think I'm just going to do English word order with the ASL signs and I urge
you, and I encourage you to not do that.
You may see some people signing PSE on youtube or in real life and that's okay,
but it's not ASL.
I'm not saying they're bad or they're wrong or they're doing a horrible things.
I'm saying it's not ASL. If you want a career in sign language,
if you want to be more welcome or readily accepted into the deaf community and
the culture,
I suggest and encourage you highly to use ASL in not PSE and definitely not.
See PSE is pigeon sign English and see his signed exact English.
I have a whole other video about this. It's, it's,
I started talking about this and I had to edit it all out cause it was like a 30
minute thing and so I'm not going to get into it right now.
Bottom line is like this. If you are mining French,
you would not only learn the vocabulary,
you will learn the grammar no matter how hard it was,
you would learn it because you would not go over to France and expected to be
okay that you just know the vocabulary but not the grammar.
It's the same with ASL is not okay just to learn the science.
You got to learn the grammar and you can't just do the signs.
Just learning signs is not gonna make you a good signer.
Knowing Asl Grammar will, Oh,
don't give into the temptation and don't give up.
Just do your best because all you can do is all you can do and all you can do is
good enough. One of the day.
What further ASL grammar videos do you want to see?
Let me know in the comments down below.
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