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When part of a sentence is moved from its normal position to the
beginning of the sentence, we call this fronting. The part of the
sentence moved to the front might be the object or some other
compliment, an adverbial or even the main verb itself.
Fronting is used by writers (authors, journalists etc) for dramatic
effect. It is not common in everyday speech.
It is useful to be able to recognize fronting when you see it.