• Instructions
  • 0.0. Instructions
• Unit 1
  • 1.1. Definition of a Deaf Person
  • 1.2. Are all Deaf People Alike?
  • 1.3. What is the Deaf Community?
  • 1.4. Communication Guidelines
  • 1.5. Self-evaluation
  • 1.6. More resources
• Unit 2
  • 2.1. What is Sign Language?
  • 2.2. The Concept of Signs
  • 2.3. Signs from Within: parameters of sign forming
  • 2.4. Sign Language Articulators
  • 2.5. Hand Alphabet
  • 2.6. Self-evaluation
  • 2.7. More resources
• Unit 3
  • 3.1. Greetings and Showing Appreciation
  • 3.2. Introducing Ourselves
  • 3.3. Affirmations and Negations
  • 3.4. Colours
  • 3.5. Self-evaluation
  • 3.6. More resources
• Unit 4
  • 4.1. The Expression of Time
  • 4.2. Cardinal Numbers
  • 4.3. The Family
  • 4.4. Self-evaluation
  • 4.5. More resources
• Unit 5
  • 5.1. LSC Verbs
  • 5.2. Basic Sentence Structure in LSC
  • 5.3. Affirmative Phrases in LSC
  • 5.4. Negative Phrases in LSC
  • 5.5. Interrogative Phrases in LSC
  • 5.6. Self-evaluation
  • 5.7. More resources
• Unit 6
  • 6.1. Students
  • 6.2. Services and administration workers (PAS)
  • 6.3. Professors
  • 6.4. External services workers
  • 6.5. Self-evaluation
  • 6.6. More resources

5.3. Affirmative Phrases in LSC

Affirmations are propositions in which something is affirmed or stated as being true. In LSC, it is essential to take into account facial expression, although we can also use the signs representing affirmation.

Yes

The basic structure of an affirmative sentence is linked to the type of action carried out by the verb. Thus, in some situations the verb’s semantics determine the position of the direct object. The position of the object in relation to the verb depends in part on whether the action is carried out on an object which already exists, or if the object “appears” as a consequence of the action expressed by the verb. Therefore, we must distinguish between two types of syntactic orders:

• Object + Subject + Verb (affected object)

  Example 1: [TABLE I CLEAN] I clean the table. Example 2: [PHOTO PRO1.SEND] I send the photo.

• Subject + Verb + Object (executed object)

  Example 1: [I DO CAKE] I do the cake. Example 2: [I BUILD HOUSE] I build the house.