AW: [sw-l] question for the way to express 'made'

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
January 10, 2010

Here is a web page with written verb modulations in SignWriting, for  
the sign for HELP - 34 of them:

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/grammar/verbs/

They are not past and future tenses however, but other aspects to  
writing verbs in ASL that are really interesting, like "continual",  
"over-time" and directionality of verbs...and so forth...

Val ;-)

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On Jan 10, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Charles Butler wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> Okay, here are 33 of the standard English tenses in several moods  
> that I remember being taught in school.  ASL can express them all,  
> it simply uses other time markers to express the same thought.   
> English carries tense markers with auxiliary words, ASL tends to  
> carry it with auxiliary time markers or manners of speech.  Present  
> is Simple, Past is by auxiliary time words, not helping verbs,  
> Future is by time words, Progressive is by (most often) manners of  
> moving the sign (quickly, slowly, sharply) or with verbs that can  
> carry them continually.  I don't have the time today to do each of  
> these phrases in ASL, but simply going through them systematically  
> might inspire someone.
>
> I walked up the hill yesterday, I marched up the hill yesterday, I  
> plodded up the hill yesterday.  I have been walking for weeks.
>
> 1) Present:
>
> I go, I be (rarely used but this is correct).  I catch.
>
> 2) Past
>
> I went.  I was.   I caught.
>
> 3) Future
>
> I will go.  I will be.  I will catch.
>
> 4) Present Progressive
>
> I am going.  I am or I am being.  I will catch.
>
> 5) Past Progressive
>
> I was going.  I was catching.
>
> 6) Future Progressive
>
> I will be going.  I will be being. I will be catching.
>
> 7) Present Perfect Progressive
>
> I have been going.  I have been being.  I have been catching.
>
> 8) Past Perfect Progressive
>
> I had been going.  I had been being.  I had been catching.
>
> 9) Future Perfect Progressive.
>
> I will have been going.  I will have been being.  I will have been  
> catching.
>
> 10) Present Perfect
>
> I have gone.  I have been.  I have caught.
>
> 11) Past Perfect
>
> I had gone. I had been.  I had caught.
>
> 12) Future Perfect.
>
> I will have gone. I will have been. I will have caught.
>
> 13) Present Conditional
>
> I might go.  I might be. I might catch.
>
> 14) Past Conditional
>
> I might have gone.  I might have been.  I might have caught.
>
> 15) Future Conditional
>
> I may go.  I may be.  I may catch.
>
> 17) Present Progressive Conditional
>
> I may have been going.  I may have been being.  I may have been  
> catching.
>
> 18) Past Progressive Conditional
>
> I might have been going.  I might have been being.  I might have  
> been catching.
>
> 19) Present Subjunctive.
>
> If I go.  If I be. If I catch.
>
> 20) Past Subjunctive.
>
> If I went.  If i were.  If I caught.
>
> 21) Future Subjunctive Progressive.
>
> If I am going.  If I am being.  If I am catching.
>
> 22) Past Perfect Subjunctive
>
> If had been going.  If I had been being.  If I had been catching.
>
> 23) Present Imperative
>
> I must go.  I must be.  I must catch.  Go. Be. Catch.
>
> 24) Present Reflexive
>
> I am caught.
>
> 25) Past Reflexive
>
> I was caught.
>
> 26) Future Reflextive
>
> I will be caught.
>
> 27) Present Progressive Reflexive
>
> I am being caught.
>
> 28) Past Progressive Reflexive
>
> I was being caught.
>
> 29) Future Progressive Reflexive
>
> I will be being caught.
>
> 30) Present Progressive Subjunctive Reflexive.
>
> If I be being caught.
>
> 31) Past Progressive Subjunctive Reflexive.
>
> If I were being caught.
>
> 32) Future Progressive Subjunctive Reflexive
>
> If I will have been being caught.
>
> 33) Infinitive
>
>
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