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I want to say that there two persons who came to do something and I highly respect them and I want to call them by name in the same sentence.
I thought it should be like this: "Deeply respected by me, Henry and Jack are well known, they came there to tell you something."
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"Well known people Henry and Jack, deeply respected by me, came here to tell you something."

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    You mean, is it OK with no subject? In general, no.
    – GEdgar
    Dec 30, 2019 at 21:50
  • @GEdgar thanks Edgar, may be you could show the most closet sentence structure to mine.
    – R S
    Dec 30, 2019 at 22:15
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    You could say "Henry is deeply respected by me, Henry, and Jack". (Though putting "me" first is often frowned upon.)
    – Hot Licks
    Dec 30, 2019 at 22:15
  • @Hot Licks The first - do you mean as in your example, before Henry and Jack?
    – R S
    Dec 30, 2019 at 22:16
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    It's nearly always highly respected, not deeply.
    – FumbleFingers
    Dec 31, 2019 at 12:53

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For non-experts in English: You will get into less trouble if you put the subject of the sentence first.

These are clumsy:

Deeply respected by me, Henry and Jack are well known, they came there to tell you something.
Well known people Henry and Jack, deeply respected by me, came here to tell you something.

To make them clear, start with the subject:

Henry and Jack, who are well known and deeply respected by me, came here to tell you something.

Another way to write clearly would be to separate it into two sentences.

Henry and Jack came here to tell you something. They are well known, and I deeply respect them.

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