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ASL 1 - TOPICALIZED SENTENCES -

Using the English sentences below, create ASL topicalized sentences.

IMPORTANT:  Read the English, then think only about the concepts, and throw out the English!

Topic phrases             (1) require raised eyebrows,

                                    (2) often starts with SEE or KNOW signs, and

                                    (3) end with a slight hold or pause.

Comment phrases      (1) usually contain the verb sign, and

                                    (2) make a comment about the topic.

Easy Sentences

            Group A                                                                       Group B

1.         My shoes are red.                                           1.         Their chairs are brown.

2.         That paper is yellow.                                      2.        Her cup is broken.

3.         The apple is sweet.                                         3.         The coffee is black.

4.         My watch is slow.                                            4.         My car is pink.

5.         His earring is gold.                                          5.         I am a man.

Later in the course we will practice with:

Harder Sentences – (Use O-S-V sentence structures when you can)

1.         I have 5 brown chairs.                                      1.       The broken cup is orange.

2.         The woman with 4 gold earrings is French.    2.        My 2 apples are different.

3.         I remember your red purse.                             3.        Those three apples are red.

4.         The  French man drinks lattes.                       4.         I know that English teacher.

5.         I see the black dog.                                           5.         I am enrolled in three classes.

Sentences Using Whole Entity Classifiers as Predicates

1.         The 2 green candy sticks are side by side.     1.         My house has an A-frame shape.

2.         The clock on the wall is slighty askew.           2.         The blue dish is upside down.

3.         My books are piled one upon the other.          3.         The man is tip-toeing.

4.         2 students are sitting facing each other         4.         The girl's dog's ears are pointing up.

5.         The small white box's lid is open.                    5.         5 pennies are lined up on their sides.

Sentences Using Whole Entity Classifiers as Locatives

(clue:  in this kind of sentence there are 2 topic phrases and one comment (verb) phrase.)

Group A

1.         My brown books are on the seat of the pink chair.

2.         My yellow car is next to John's purple house.

3.         The four black buttons are behind the blue cup.

Group B

1.         The book on the table is mine.

2.         The blue car broadsided the red car.