Imagine you are at a Deaf coffee shop. Your phone charger breaks. You need to borrow one. You don't know the sign for "charger." Using Unit 8.8 skills, you say: (Point to phone) + (CL:1 - long thin wire) + (CL:C - small round plug at the end) + (INFORMATION?)
Instead, use the logic above to self-correct. Practice your CL:B (flat), CL:C (round), and CL:1 (thin) handshapes. Watch Deaf vloggers describe strange objects on YouTube. The "answer" is fluency.
Description: "Object. It is long, thin, metal. It has a pointed tip. It has a small hole at the other end. You use it with thread." A needle.
If you have searched for you are likely wrestling with one of the most conceptually difficult sections of Unit 8: describing objects by their physical characteristics (size, shape, texture) and using Classifiers (CL) .
Description: "Object. It is round, flat, and made of glass. You put liquid inside. You drink from it." A glass/cup.
The correct answer is always the classifier that accurately depicts the object’s size, shape, and texture combined with the correct non-manual signal . Master that, and you will never need to search for a PDF again.