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BW2/3 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

fronting

traumatic she was after she was smashed by her boyfriend.

In war many soliders have died.

bursted into tears Jenny was when she lost her ticket to LA.

Are these sentences OK ?

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Traumatized she was after she was smashed by her boyfriend. In war many soldiers have died. Bursting into tears Jenny was when she lost her ticket to LA.

  • Traumatized she was after she was smashed by her boyfriend.
  • In war many soldiers have died.
  • Bursting into tears Jenny was when she lost her ticket to LA.
  • Kind of forced, not great, and a bit "literary," but understandable.
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Traumatized she was after she was smashed by her boyfriend.
In war many soldiers have died.
Bursting into tears Jenny was when she lost her ticket to LA.
Kind of forced, not great, and a bit "literary," but understandable.
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I'm going to go a step further than Marius and say that #1 and #3 go beyond forced and are outright odd. Yoda speaks this way - normal English speakers do not. She was traumatized, Jenny burst into tears. (#2 is okay.)

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