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Alc24 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Starting the sentence with the 2nd clause of the sentence

Can you say this and is it grammatical?

1 People nicer than them, you will never find.

Thank you
  

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alc24 People nicer than them, you will never find. Yes. This is okay.

  • alc24 People nicer than them, you will never find.
  • Yes.
  • This is okay.
  • I'd prefer the pronoun "these," but I can't find a reason why "them" should be wrong.
  • Of course, "them" is not demonstrative.
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alc24People nicer than them, you will never find.
Yes. This is okay.

I'd prefer the pronoun "these," but I can't find a reason why "them" should be wrong.

Of course, "them" is not demonstrative. We assume it has an antecedent in prior context.

Take them to the station. (antecedent)

Take these to the station.
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<<<People nicer than them, you will never find.>>>

It surves no purpose to express the idea twith a noun phrase his way. to me. it is awkward and gramamtically marginal. In conventional sentence structure, subject is easily identifiable, such as:

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Granted, it's not casual conversation. It's poetic - stylish.
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The OP asked about the grammaticaity and if it can be said....
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alc24Can you say this and is it grammatical?1 People
nicer than them, you will never find.
You can say it, and it's grammatical, but it's very seat-of-the-pants to me. People say things like this all the time in conversation. In the heat of conversation, we don't necessarily plan out a sentence very carefully, and we sometimes have to reverse mid-course
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Emotion: clap CJ, Nicely said! I am always amazed how effortlessly you have tackled immensely difficult questions. I am learning ....
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alc24People nicer than them, you will never find.
Okay, I guess I can hear it in casual (excited) conversation:
People nicer than them?! (in an argument) Hey! You'll never find 'em!
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alc24Can you say this and is it grammatical?

1 People nicer than them, you will never find.

Thank you

Yes, you can and it is perfectly grammatical. It's a special way (called preposing) of presenting the information you want to convey by putting an element of a sentence before the subject when its basic position would normally be

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