Rare examples of valid, if idiomatic, English use of OVS typology are the poetic hyperbaton'Answer gave he none'and'what say you ?'These examples are highly unusual and not typical of modern spoken English.
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As a reader of Greek and Latin, I think of hyperbaton as involving much more violent and rhetorically effective departures from normal syntax than in your example, but the term is also used in a weak sense ( meaning little more than " use of non-normal word order " ) that could embrace the placement of subordinate clauses as in your example.
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The title of the episode " Ex Deus Machina " is a hyperbaton of " deus ex machina " ( literally " God out of a Machine ", meaning " God appearing on a crane ", a literary device for a kind of turn of events ) after he jokingly suggested to his writing partners a plot about Ba'al working undercover as a mechanic on Earth.
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Many of the literary techniques he used are still common today, including hyperbaton : " plenus saculus est aranearum " ( Catullus 13 ), which translates as [ my ] purse is all full of cobwebs . He also uses anaphora e . g . " Salve, nec minimo puella naso nec bello pede nec & " ( Catullus 43 ) as well as tricolon and alliteration.
