Feb 25th

ASL

Wednesday, Feb 25th

Parts of a sentence Today

we will look at three main parts of a sentence Subject ( who or what does the action) Object ( to who or to what the action is done to) Verb (the Action) My

dog ate the ball She went to the mall

Basic Sentence structure With an object: Object + Subject + Verb I have a green shirt Shirt green I have

Working on Present, Future and Past Tense

Present tense Pronoun + verb Ex: I work I also can use words such as now or today These words can be used at the beginning or end of the sentence. ( I prefer to use time indicators at the beginning of the sentence) Eg: Today I work

Put into the present tense I

have a blue hat

I

need plad skirt

I

lost my gloves

I

can’t find clean jeans

I

don’t want those earrings

Past tense Use

a tense indicator ( a word that establishes past tense) Such as: Before / Past/ Used to Yesterday, two days ago…etc Recently, Long-ago These words can come at the beginning or end of a sentence (Again, I prefer to use them at the beginning)

I

Past tense

lost my watch yesterday

Last

week I bought a new T-shirt

Two

days ago I found my hat

I

had a nice red hoodie

I

wore my red jacket yesterday

Practice putting these phrases together ( First we I

wore my favorite shirt (this morning)

I

saw him with those clothes (yesterday)

I

lost my hat ( last week)

That

girl with the red shirt, I forget her name (Present tense )

Putting it together English to ASL

Time sign + subject ( subject is the person doing the action) + verb + object

Using the sign “Finish” Finish

( also means already or when you want someone to stop something) Shows that an action has been completed Can appear before or after the noun I already saw that movie ◦ I finish saw movie ◦ I saw-finish movie I

already met him

Practice using the sign finish I

buy car He father he make cookie he She write paper she Brother read book he I sell house I Movie I see I I visit Grandmother I My sign improve He drink water he Son he grow-up he I cook all-day I