ASL Classifier Practice

What do classifiers represent?

• adjectives and adverbs

• prepositions

• nouns and pronouns

• All of the above

What is a classifier?

• A 6th Sign Parameter

• handshapes used to add random gestures into a story

• nouns and pronouns

• specific handshapes used to describe items, placement of items, or shows what an item is doing.

What type of classifier shows size, shape, or pattern of a noun?

• Descriptive

• Semantic

• Body Part

• Instrumental

• Body

What type of classifier shows how a whole entity interacts or moves?

• Descriptive

• Semantic

• Body Part

• Instrumental

• Body

What type of classifier emphasizes a particular isolated part of the human or animal body?

• Elemental

• Semantic

• Body Part

• Instrumental

• Body

What type of classifier shows both the object and the action (how to use the object) at the same time??

• Elemental

• Semantic

• Body Part

• Instrumental

• Plural

What type of classifier represents the whole body of a human or an animal??

• Elemental

• Locative

• Body

• Instrumental

• Body Part

What type of classifier describes something in nature/weather ?

• Elemental

• Locative

• Body

• Instrumental

• Body Part

What type of classifier indicates a specific number or a large group of something (nonspecific number)?

• Elemental

• Locative

• Semantic

• Instrumental

• Plural

What type of classifier represents English prepositions? (how objects relate to each other in space)?

• Elemental

• Locative

• Semantic

• Instrumental

• Plural