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I am having difficulty translating something (I am translating as an
excerise), how would one translate a more instrumental sentence, like:

"Charlie sweetens the cake with sugar" "Arthur killed Mordred with Excalibur"

I know how to say "Charlie sweetens the cake", but I am having difficulty
working in the "with sugar" part. I know で is used for an instrumental noun,
but I am not exactly sure where in the sentence one would place it. I tried
multiple different placements in google translate, but I can't get it right,
and Google translate is also getting confused by a lot of the words, mostly
the transliterated names.

So, can somebody help me with this so that I can better learn Japanese
sentence structure and translate what I am trying to translate? It is just
hard to translate sentences when they start to get more complicated, like the
ones mentioned, and it is hard to look up more specific minutia of grammar
such as this. Please and thank you.

(This is not the exact sentence I am trying to translate, but it is of a
similar structure and such)

チャーリーがケーキお甘くする砂糖で actually seems to work when I put it in with far more real-
world words. I think google translate was mostly getting really confused by
the fantasy terms and extra possessives. Is this right?
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Trying to translate a more complex sentence, Instrumentives
> チャーリーがケーキお甘くする砂糖で

Japanese clauses normally have _NOUN1 PARTICLE1 NOUN2 PARTICLE2 NOUN3
PARTICLE3 ... VERB_ structure. In speech, it sometimes happens that speaker
remembers to say additional information after already saying verb, but if you
are writing this sentence, it is better to write it in more correct form.

Direct object marker should be written as を (sometimes romanized as _wo_ ),
not as お.

You can add topic particle は, replacing が.

In naturally sounding sentences, when not trying to emphasize something,
subject should be at the beginning, and direct object close to verb. In this
case 砂糖で would be between them.

So corrected sentence would be:

チャーリーは砂糖でケーキを甘くする
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