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Old 08-15-2009, 10:21 AM   #41 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Oceanblue7 View Post
Anyone know how can you tell if the temporal aspect is the proper tense, past , present or future? I just realized this after looking at my book.
...like how tense is identified in ASL?

You use a tense marker at some point. So you may start a sentence with PAST-ME-DATE-*insert name here*, because of the PAST you know this is past tense. Or the use of FINISH. So EAT-FINISH means that you already ate, therefore, past tense.

Or WILL-CLEAN means that you will clean in the future.

Is this what you were asking?
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