§ 34. Prædicate of many Words. When the prædicate consists of many words, the most emphatic word generally stands alone in the place of the prædicate, the rest being placed after the subject. This is the case when the prædicate contains an explanatory or a relative clause; or a clause in any other way dependent on the principal word. This also accounts for the apparent reversing of the positions of subject and prædicate in negative sentences, the negation being the most prominent thing in such sentences.
Examples.
He tangata tenei no Akarana, this is a man from Auckland.
Ko te tangata tera e mohio ana ki te whakairo rakau, that is the man who understands carving wood.
§ 35. Negatives. The negatives of sentences with ko are always made with ehara ... i, ko being dropped.
Examples.
Ehara tenei i a ia, this is not he.
Ehara tona ingoa i a Hemi, his name is not Hemi. (See above, [§ 34].)
The negatives of sentences without ko are made sometimes with ehara ... i and sometimes with kahore. Those of class 1, in [§ 33] are always with ehara ... i.
Examples.