Is there a sentence that begins with “them”?


An online retail store is asking its customers to construct a sentence beginning with them in order to win a voucher. I just can't believe there's any such sentence, at least I don't know of any!


I've had enough laughs with friends coming up with Americanisms that fit, so that's not what I'm looking for.


I'm just very curious, is such a sentence grammatically possible or is this store just being mischievous?



Answer



Fronting the object for focus, by converting an SVO sentence into an OSV one, is a common enough syntactic pattern in English:




Submitting ungrammatical sentences is of no use here.
Them we refuse to even consider.



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