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In school I was taught to write sentences, with 'I/me' or any other pronoun
first-person or not, always being at the beginning of a sentence like so:

> 僕はリンゴがダサいと思います。

Yet I frequently see sentences on this site and in "real-world Japanese" as:

> リンゴがダサいと僕は思います。

*Note: the above are sentences created by myself so they may not be entirely grammatical but real world examples will follow

What I have noted is that in some cases it alleviates the need for certain
particles such as this answer to [a different grammar question I found on this
site](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/48387/i-think-that-she-
thinks-that-i-think-she-is-dumb/48390#48390):

> 彼女のことをバカだと僕は思っている。

Whereas I would have written it as:

> 僕は彼女のことがバカだと思っている。

I would be most grateful to anyone willing to explain if there are rules to
this sort of grammar, am I using it correctly? (probs not) and whether or not
it changes the meaning to the sentence in any way

Thank you kindly
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~を僕はします Question about word order
Word order is less important in Japanese than in English, because Japanese
uses particles (が, は, を, etc) to indicate the role of each word in a sentence.
This makes Japanese very flexible in terms of word order:

  * [Does word order change the meaning of a sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/19433/5010)

There is an "ordinary" word order ("subject-object-verb" or SOV), which you
have to respect when you learn to write good Japanese sentences. In your case,
僕はリンゴがダサいと思います is the normal word order which you should firstly get used to.
However, in real-life conversations, especially in casual ones, you may
encounter sentences in loose word order. リンゴがダサいと僕は思います feels a little less
organized, but is still perfectly acceptable in speech. Actually, even
ダサいと思いますリンゴが僕は still makes perfect sense, and sounds even realistic to me. You
should not try to make such sentences intentionally, but eventually you may
have to interpret such sentences correctly.

Next, `AをBと思う`, `AをBだと思う` and `AがBだと思う` are basically interchangeable. Your
last attempt looks equally natural. For details, please read the following
discussions:

  * [Can を used with だ/です](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/55158/5010)
  * [Difference between だと vs と before 認める](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/55990/5010)
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