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Build a whole Tongan sentence

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

Assemble the sentence from tiles: pick the right ʻa / ʻe / ʻa e / ʻe he markers and the right order.

A typical item reads: Say: Sione ate the bread. Each item hands you the English and asks you to build the Tongan, and a wrong build is shown beside the sentence the grammar wants.

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

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