Form both hands into 'A' handshapes with your thumbs pointing up. Hold your non-dominant hand in front of your chest with the back of the hand facing up and outward. With your dominant hand, strike the back of your non-dominant hand twice, moving your dominant hand upward and toward your body with each strike. Use an intense facial expression to convey the severity.
Sign 'DOG', point to the dog to establish its location, and then sign 'DANGEROUS' while using a serious, warning facial expression.
Sign 'NIGHT', 'WALK', and 'ALONE', then emphasize the sign for 'DANGEROUS' with furrowed eyebrows to show the risk involved.
Sign 'CAREFUL' and 'ICE', followed by 'DANGEROUS'. Make sure your facial expression matches the intensity of the warning.
Sign 'DOG', point to the dog to establish its location, and then sign 'DANGEROUS' while using a serious, warning facial expression.
Sign 'NIGHT', 'WALK', and 'ALONE', then emphasize the sign for 'DANGEROUS' with furrowed eyebrows to show the risk involved.
Sign 'CAREFUL' and 'ICE', followed by 'DANGEROUS'. Make sure your facial expression matches the intensity of the warning.
Yes! In ASL, facial expressions are a crucial part of the grammar. To convey that something is truly dangerous, you should furrow your eyebrows, tighten your lips, and look serious to match the intensity of the warning.
Yes, your dominant hand should be the one moving and striking the back of your stationary non-dominant hand. If you are right-handed, your right hand does the moving while your left hand stays still.
Typically, the dominant hand strikes the back of the non-dominant hand twice. A single, larger and sharper movement might occasionally be used to emphasize a sudden or extreme danger, but a double movement is the standard dictionary form.
