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I've seen this type of sentences in Harry Potter books. I've made these up, but I'm sure Rubeus Hagrid or whoever talks like this:

Tiring, those blokes are.

Such a great man, Dumblodre is.

Why do they say that way? Is it some kind of dialect or what?

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    It's quite common in informal speech to emphasise a word or phrase by putting it at the beginning of the sentence. The implied meaning is "[They are] tiring" - "[He is] such a great man". It isn't part of any particular dialect. Nov 18, 2021 at 9:34

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This type of construction is acceptable; phrases or sentences formulated this way can be understood with no ambiguity; they are correct English.

However, they are rarely used and, as far as I know, aren't characteristic of any particular dialect of English. The type of sentence you show is almost always formulated in the order

subject is adjective

So the effect of the alternative construction:

adjective, subject is

is that it generally sounds very strange, although unambiguous and grammatically fine.

So, in fiction we find this type of adjective-first or verb-last (or both) construction deliberately being used in the speech of a character to mark out that character as unique or different from others. The classic example is Master Yoda in Star Wars:

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.

Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.

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    It's a type of "inversion" (changing word order to something other than the English default Subject + Verb + Object). But note that some of your examples move the Subject to the final position, whereas others move the Verb to the end. And although any such inversion is by definition less common than the "default", not all variants are equal. So your second example (with the verb at the end) is extremely unlikely compared to the more common inversion Truly wonderful is the mind of a child (itself rare compared to the default The mind of a child is truly wonderful). Nov 18, 2021 at 14:30
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    One very common context where you'll encounter this "literary device" is "historical / fantasy" writing such as the Harry Potter books. Partly because it's assumed (accurately or not, I dunno) that people really did speak more like Yoda from Star Wars centuries ago, but mainly because it's an established literary convention primarily intended to impart some element of "exotic other-worldliness" to a narrative. Nov 18, 2021 at 14:36

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