About American Sign Language

Body language and facial expressions

Grammar and sentence structure

Verbs

Deaf etiquette

Variation in ASL

Meeting, greeting, and good-byes

Asking questions

Describing people and things

Expressing likes and dislikes

Expressing past, present, and future

The manual alphabet : finger spelling

Numbers, dates, and time

Family and friends

Health

Appendix. Glossing conventions ; Answer key to chapter quizzes.