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For those with communication challenges who also have hearing and speaking impairments, sign language comes naturally. The lack of any sign language corpus has prevented the development of many text to sign language conversion systems, despite a variety of tools being available to interpret or recognize sign language and convert it to text. Our project seeks to develop a translation system with a parsing module that converts English sentence structure grammar representation into an Indian sign language grammar representation. To accomplish this, stop words in the rearranged sentence are removed. Since Indian sign language does not provide word inflections, stemming is used to reduce words to their basic form. The dictionary's word entries with videos for each word are then compared to all the terms in the sentence. If the word is not included in the dictionary, a synonym is used in its stead. The proposed system is novel because it seeks to translate these sentences into Indian sign language grammar in a real-world context, unlike existing systems that just directly translate words into Indian sign language.