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Glossing Work

1. Glossing is a way of writing American Sign Language (ASL) in English. Glossing involves writing ASL signs in capital letters and following specific rules about tense, plurality, and sentence structure. 2. Key aspects of glossing include writing in the present tense, omitting certain English words like articles and verb endings, and using signs like FINISH or + to indicate past or plural forms. 3. Basic ASL sentence structure involves signing a time indicator first, followed by place/topic, subject, verb, and then any qualifiers like questions or feelings. This linear structure helps translate English into a visual ASL format.

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Glossing Work

1. Glossing is a way of writing American Sign Language (ASL) in English. Glossing involves writing ASL signs in capital letters and following specific rules about tense, plurality, and sentence structure. 2. Key aspects of glossing include writing in the present tense, omitting certain English words like articles and verb endings, and using signs like FINISH or + to indicate past or plural forms. 3. Basic ASL sentence structure involves signing a time indicator first, followed by place/topic, subject, verb, and then any qualifiers like questions or feelings. This linear structure helps translate English into a visual ASL format.

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GLOSSING MEANS: WRITING IN ASL

1. Glossing is always written in CAPITAL LETTERS. Every word


you want signed is written in Capital Letters (CAPS).
2. ASL gloss is always written in the PRESENT TENSE.
3. ASL does not use these! Make sure to cross these out of your
English sentence:
a. To be verbs: is, am, are, be, been, was, were
b. Endings: s, ing, es, ly, ed, er, en
c. Articles: a, an, the
d. Past tense of words: told, seen, saw, ate, ran, felt, went
4. English uses s to show plural : books, houses, dogs. These same
concepts/pictures are written in Gloss:
a. BOOK+, (Books)
b. HOUSE+, ( Houses)
c. DOG+ (dogs)
i. (notice the sign is in caps, the + sign means to sign
the word more than one time. HOUSE HOUSE=
houses. This makes more than one picture and creates a
picture of more than one, thus, plural.)
5. English uses ed to show something has taken place in the PAST:
Walked. Or, sometimes en is used to show the past: Spoken. Or,
the word may change form to show past tense: See=Saw, eat=Ate.
ASL uses the sign FINISH to show something happened in the
past or an action has already taken place or is in the past:
-fshFINISH+ WALK
or
-fshWALK+FINISH= walked or already walked

-fshFINISH SPEAK
or
-fshSPEAK FINISH= spoke or already spoken
-fshFINISH SEE
or
-fshSEE FINISH= saw

-fshFINISH GO-TO
or
-fshGO-TO FINISH= went
6. A TIME INDICATOR (time word) is ALWAYS signed First! Unless
you are talking about the NOW/PRESENT. Because it is written in
the present. Which meansnow! This tells the listener or reader
what tense the concept that is to be signed took place ( past tense) OR
will take place (future tense) OR is taking place (present tense).

EXAMPLES:
PRESENT TENSE:
NOW I READ= I am reading now. Now Im reading.
PAST TENSE-fshI FINISH+READ= I already read. I finished reading
FUTURE TENSEFUTURE READ I WILL= I will read in the future.
7. ASL does have various sentence structures, but this is one way
that will help you to change English to ASL is by following this
pattern.
8. Once you have the idea and see why Deaf need the picture setup
this way; you can go on to more complicated or varied sentence
structures.
Basic ASL sentence structure follows this pattern:
Gloss
Structur
e

TIME Place/topi
c

Who Who What


happene
d

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
ENGLISH: I will go to Grandmas house today.

? words,
commands
, negation,
feelings,
reemphasis,

ASL: _____ ______ ___,____ _______


TIME
place who , who what
or topic
happened

_____
? words,
feelings,
negagation,
command words

Note: Always remember that Deaf think Linear. Ask yourself what
needs to be in the picture BEFORE you can: move it, see it, describe
it, go to it, like it, want it, need it, borrow it, close it, open it

In pictures:

WILL

PRACTICE SENTENCE TYPE: COMMENT


ASL: _____
TIME

________
place/topic

____
who

_______

____________

what happen question words


commands, feelings,
negative words

English:

ASL: _____

________

____

_______

_________

TIME

place/topic

who

what happen

question words
commands, feelings,
negative words

English:

****Assignment on next page. This is your homework, complete


it and return it to class the next day. ****

Name
Date
Period
Title: Glossing Practice: Comment sentences.
Now write 5 comment sentences using this pattern.
1. ASL: _____
TIME

________ _____
place

who

_______
what happen

English:________________________________________________
2. ASL: _____
TIME

________ _____
place

who

_______
what happen

English:_________________________________________________
3. ASL: _____
TIME

________ _____
place

who

_______
what happen

English:_________________________________________________
4. ASL: _____
TIME

________ _____
place

who

_______
what happen

English:_________________________________________________
5. ASL: _____
TIME

________ _____
place

who

_______
what happen

English:_________________________________________________

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