2nd L (F–10) 7-8
Understanding

 Systems of language - Elaboration 3

- recognising the nature and function of word classes and understanding that the context of the sign is important and Auslan signs will not always have the same word class as an English word, for example, adjectives can act like verbs in Auslan

- recognising that signers may include linguistic and gestural elements in a clause, that is, signers can tell, show or do both simultaneously

- noticing, with support, when signers are using composite utterances, that is, those that have elements of CA, DSs, points and fully-lexical signs in the same utterance

- understanding the different functions of a range of NMFs, such as those used for questions, topicalisation, negation or conditional forms

- distinguishing between yes/no questions and wh- questions and statements and their corresponding NMFs

- recognising that clauses can be joined by conjunctions to make longer sentences and these conjunctions can be shown with separate signs, such as PLUS, or THEN or NMFs, for example by pausing between clauses

- recognising that clauses can be linked equally or unequally where one clause depends on another