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help with grammer/structure

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Kendall Williams

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4/25/2026
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Hello intersign! I've only recently started learning ASL and was wonder if anyone has any tips for remembering the different grammer rules and general structure of ASL. I find that whenever I try to practice, I always accidentally slip into English structure. Any help is appreciated, thank you in advance!

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Louise

4/25/2026

I am wondering this as well!

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Laura

4/26/2026

The one that has kind of stuck for me is TNAV or whatever acronym you want to use. T - time N - noun (topic/object) A - adjective (comment/description) V - verb

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Kendall ❤️

4/28/2026

This really helped! thank you!!

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Vivian Guier

4/29/2026

thanks for the tip. I was struggling with this tol

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Evelyn meeks

4/26/2026

hi

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Evelyn meeks

4/26/2026

how you doing

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.˚₊✩Alizyze✩₊˚.

4/26/2026

For me it just clicked, I tried to learn it but I couldn't. Then when I was practicing it clicked.

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Tehila

4/28/2026

Hi can you give also wait in hebrew! (bicuz I am better off in hebrew) think you !!

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