Topic, Question AKA Long Yes/No Question

• The order for these sentences is very specific. you must always do the following:
  • Time (if you have one: YESTERDAY, 2-MINUTE, NOVEMBER, VALENTINE’S DAY, 4 AFTERNOON)
  • Comma (if you had a time)
  • Topic (MY DOG, YOUR HOUSE, P-E-T-E-R, SCIENCE CLASS) (underlined)
  • Comma
  • Question (READY YOU, FINISH YOU, YOU WANT, GO-TO, CELEBRATE, LIKE)
  • Question Mark

• Sometimes your time can be the topic if the focus of your sentence is on the time or time period.
• Sometimes your time can be the question if you are using the time as your question.

• Examples:
  • Do you want to go to Starbucks?
    • STARBUCKS, YOU WANT GO-TO?
  • Will you eat a hamburger, french fries, and a milkshake?
    • HAMBURGER, FRENCH-FRIES, MILKSHAKE, YOU EAT?
  • Will you be wearing a pink tux to prom?
    • GO-TO PROM PINK TUXEDO, WEAR YOU?

• Notice that the ASL gloss is all capitalized (to represent signs), has punctuation (a period) at the end, has dashes between the letters that are fingerspelled, and has a dash between the two words used in English to represent one sign in ASL.
• The English is written with only the first letter capitalized and there is punctuation (a period) at the end.
• There is a # sign before a sign to represent that the sign is lexicalized (spelling all or most of the letters of the word in order to make a sign).