E27 EMPHASIS 2 Yoda Speak

"A John Denver I'm not."  I tend to write expository passages, not poetry.  In the lessons on the Seven Simple English Sentences, you saw the basic order of words.  Here I am going to look at odd orders.

First, let’s look at the most famous speaker of odd English, Yoda, from Star Wars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda

Sometimes he just sounds foreign.  There is no logical reason why Yoda’s grammar is wrong, but the rules are just idiomatic: Yoda's way is not the way we say it.

Sometimes he is actually using word order for emphasis:

  There is more to come.