Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007

All of these seem correct to me but are extremely stilted. That is to
say:None of them would appear in the course of actual speech or
writing,however formal or literary,or even poetic.They would only
appear if you translated literally from a foreign language, without
taking cognizance of variations in mood, register and idiomatic
sentence structure in passing from the foreign language to English.

It might be better to recast this as:
'No pens have I in my pocket.'
'have got' is informal colloquial while the sentence is cast in an
extremely flighty literary form.

The sentences are grammatically correct. The word order is unusual,
and would only be used to draw attention to the words that are out of
order, for emphasis, for other stylistic reasons, or in poetry.

New York City has put up signs at work sites saying "Dig we must for a
better New York," a whimsical apology for the inconvenience caused to
citizens, and John Keats wrote a famous poem that begins, "Much have I
travell'd in the realms of gold," and carries on with the same
construction for several lines.

If you are not perfectly comfortable with written English, you should
probably avoid this sort of thing.