In the previous column it was asserted that, with regard to the way verbs are used, te reo Māori is much simpler than English. It’s perhaps ironic that it would seem to be this greater simplicity that ...

In the previous column, on variation in sentence patterns in te reo, attention was focused specifically on the difference between active and passive verb-forms. With an active verb the subject is ...

In Lesson 16, you learned to express more than one action in one sentence by linking the TE-form of verbs. If you add the particle KARA (after), after the TE-form of verbs, you can make it clear that ...