30-06-2022, 04:10 PM
I had been giving this some more thought, and actually this string of words could be made grammatically sound in English, and indeed a proper sentence. For that, we need to assume that the object "them" has been fronted. This would be called a "marked" word order. The unmarked word order would be something like:
"And, as no one called, they turn to them".
If you want to stress the "them", you can move it to the front, out of its neutral position: "And them, as no one called, they turn to".
So I think it is probably grammatical, although it still sounds weird, especially in isolation and with Ruby's punctuation.
"And, as no one called, they turn to them".
If you want to stress the "them", you can move it to the front, out of its neutral position: "And them, as no one called, they turn to".
So I think it is probably grammatical, although it still sounds weird, especially in isolation and with Ruby's punctuation.
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