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This is a practice drill from the free 52-lesson Tongan course. The drills menu files it under lesson 19, transitive word order, rated intermediate.

Read a Tongan sentence and pick what it means. Comprehension, the one thing nothing else drills.

Every item asks the same thing: What does this sentence mean? Each item shows a line of Tongan and a short row of answers to tap. Right or wrong, the drill then says why that answer is the one the grammar wants.

One from the deck: Naʻe kai ʻe Sione ʻa e mā. The answers offered are Sione ate the bread, The bread ate Sione, Sione will eat.

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