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1. Something so sentimental, you make so detrimental.

2 Something so difficult, you make easy.

This first one was taken from a song.

Disregarding that fact as songs do not follow traditional grammar, are both of these grammatically correct?

Dave_anon · Accepted Answer

Hi

Your question is perplexing. Songs and poems have their own grammar, as you rightly say. But I don't think you can then ask if they are grammatical!

This is ok as a sentence:

- Your kiss is something so sentimental, but you make so detrimental; it is something so difficult, yet you make it easy.

Dave

CalifJim · Answer

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1. Something so sentimental, you make so detrimental.
2 Something so difficult, you make easy.
This first one was taken from a song.
Disregarding that fact as songs do not follow traditional grammar, are both of these grammatically correct?

Yes. It's called preposing the object. You take the object of the sentence and put it first. It's used in poetry (and therefore in songs) much more often than in everyday speech. (All sorts of changes in word order are used in poetry, not just this one.)

You make something so difficult easy. (in the usual order)
Something so difficult you make easy. (with preposed object)

In ordinary conversation:

— Do you know what a palindrome is?
— Yes, I know that.
— OK, but do you know what a digital palindrome is?
— Now that I don't know.

You might hear a preposed object once in ordinary conversation for every 10,000 sentences you hear in the usual order.

CJ

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