Person, place, or thing: which "to"?

This is a practice drill from the free 52-lesson Tongan course. The course reaches for it in lesson 46, noun classes, where it runs inside the lesson as well as on this page.

kia Mele, ki kolo, ki he motú; names and places skip the article; everything else takes he and the accent.

Every item asks the same thing: Person, place, or common noun? Each card carries one word, and you file it into the class it belongs to. The reason shows on the card either way, so a wrong guess teaches as much as a right one.

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