Appendix A: Advanced Grammar Features; Creating A Grammar Button; Identifying Parts Of Speech - Saltillo TouchChat Express 8 Guía De Usario

Appendix A: Advanced Grammar Features

The features explained in this appendix are intended for persons with extensive knowledge of grammar.
Please note that this is an alternative way to set up grammar within a vocabulary file. WordPower files
already have a grammar in place.

Creating a Grammar Button

To create a button that changes a word to a different grammatical form:
1. Go to the page with the button location you want.
2. Tap Menu > Edit Page.
3. Press and hold the button you want to use.
4. Tap Edit This Button.
5. Add a label. For example, enter -s.
6. Scroll down to the Button Actions section.
7. Tap Add.
8. Tap Grammar Action. The Grammar actions will be displayed.
9. Tap the action you want. For example, tap add -s. The action will be listed in the Button Actions
section.
10. Tap Save. In this example, a button labeled "-s" will be available to pluralize all nouns.

Identifying Parts of Speech

To apply a part of speech to a button:
1. Navigate to a page of "things" (nouns).
2. Choose Menu > Edit Page.
3. Press and hold a "thing" button (for example, car), choose Edit This Button, and scroll down to the
Actions section.
4. Choose Add to open the list of actions.
5. Select Apply Grammar Property. The Part of Speech menu will list adjective, noun, and verb
options.
6. Select the applicable part of speech (for example, noun).
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