STRUCTURE QUIZ - Session 4 | Super Survey Maker

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Structure in Auslan

Test your understanding of structure and negation in Auslan with this engaging quiz! Whether you're a beginner or looking to brush up on your skills, this quiz will challenge your knowledge and help reinforce key concepts.

Quiz features:

10 multiple-choice questions
Assess your knowledge of negators and conditional sentences
Understand the use of buoy and listing in Auslan

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by SigningStar47

When people are speaking or signing, they often use sentences that look like questions but are not questions, because they do not expect an answer from them. These questions are called?

Yes-No questions

Wh- questions

Rhetorical questions

Content questions

Speakers and signers may sometimes use negation to say something that does not exist or is not true

True

False

In Auslan, negative sentence has specific non-manual signals that include:

What is a negator?

A manual sign of negation that replaces non-manual signals in a sentence

A negative alligator

A manual sign of negation that may be added to a sentence in addition to the non-manual signals

A manual sign of negation that always occurs before the noun

NOT and NOTHING are common negators in Auslan. The signs may occur before a verb but NOTHING generally follows the verb

True

False

A conditional sentence is made up of ___ clauses?

4 - 2 main clause that describes the event/state and 2 subordinate clauses that describes conditions required for event/state to occur

3 - a main clause that describes the event/state and 2 subordinate clauses that describes conditions required for event/state to occur

2 - a main clause that describes the event/state and a subordinate clause that describes conditions required for event/state to occur

Santa

"If it rains tomorrow, the game will be cancelled." Which is the subordinate clause?

RAIN

GAME CANCEL

IF TOMORROW RAIN

TOMORROW GAME

A buoy is a...?

Sign language strategy that helps with discourse cohesion, by providing a physical presence that the signer can refer back to

Floating thing in water that Americans pronounce as boo-ee

A list buoy in Auslan involves listing referent on the subordinate hand using the fingers from either the pinky or ring finger

True

False

If the description is long or both hands are required for signing, then the list buoy is temporarily dropped but then returned for reference

True

False

STRUCTURE QUIZ - Session 4

Structure in Auslan

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