§ 31. In affirmative Sentences, the prædicate stands first, and the subject after it; and two nouns, or an adjective and noun, placed in these relative positions form a sentence although without a verb. In negative sentences, this relative position is apparently ([§ 34]) reversed.
Sentences of this kind are made either with, or without the particle ko.
§ 32. Use "ko", when the prædicate is either
1. A proper name, or personal pronoun, a noun of locality ([§ 10]), or either of the interrogatives wai, or hea.
2. A common noun with any of the definitives except he.
Examples.
Ko ia tenei, this is he.
Ko Hemi tona ingoa, his name is Hemi.
Ko toku whare tera, that is my house.