Need help re-ordering these english sentences into Object Subject Verb and finite verb before infinitive?

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I am trying to learn Object Subject Verb, I have the basics down like "some sports(object) I(subject) played(verb, finite)" instead of normally "I played some sports". Yoda speak is OSV

what would the sentences look like if they were in Object Subjet Verb order and infinitive verbs like (to ask, to be, to do, will, must, might, etc.) came after finite verbs like (play, learn, etc.)?

A basic example I know is "I might know this" would be "this I know might"

so here's sentences:
Double verbs:
Nancy can't stand to work the late shift.
Tom agreed to help me.
His health appeared to be better
He doesn't care to participate in the activity.
She claimed to be a princess.
We decided to go to Hawaii.

No Object:
He began to talk.
He can't bear to be alone.
She continued to talk.


thank you.

Mark · Accepted Answer

In "Yoda speak" the sentence always ends with a verb or the word "not". Sometimes the word "did" is added to the sentence that doesn't have an object. Sentences often begin with a verb infinitive. No contractions are ever used. Whenever possible the sentence is shortened and simplified.

Stand to work the late shift Nancy can not.
To help me Tom agreed.
Better his health appeared to be.
Care to participate he does not.
To be a princess she claimed.
To go to Hawaii we decided.
Begin to talk he did.
Bear to be alone he can not.
Continued to talk she did.

Anonymous · Answer

Your first example is NOT Object Subject Verb. It's a reduced adjective clause.

Some sports that I play are football and baseball.

2 clauses--- Some sports are football and baseball
                    I play some sports.

In "Nancy can't stand to work the night shift" there's only one verb- can't stand.  "to work" is an infinitive functioning as a noun (infinitives ALWAYS function as nouns in sentences.)

I have no idea why you'd want OSV sentences. That's not how English works.
If you want a list of verbs that can be followed by the infinitive (as opposed to the present participle), there's one in most ESL texts, and I'm sure on the web, as well. Google "infinitive versus present participle".  You'll get information on verbs that take both (I like shopping, I like to shop) and verbs that have to be followed by one or the other (I want to go).

vrabel · Answer

Chicago is the problem, positioned is the verb, Lake Michigan, even as a noun may also refer back to the verb or be an adverbal clause of kinds. magnificent is an adjective that modifies a sub topic of airports it really is a pronoun. The subejct is Chicago and the verb or concentration is positioned, which tells you the position chicago is (action note).

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Need help re-ordering these english sentences into Object Subject Verb and finite verb before infinitive?

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