Cumulative Sentence

Cumulative sentence may refer to:

Grammar

  • Loose sentence, or cumulative sentence, a type sentence structure

an independent clause followed by a series of dependent clauses (contrast with periodic sentence)

Law

  • Consecutive terms of imprisonment. See Sentence (law)

Famous quotes containing the words cumulative and/or sentence:

    Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace, only its inherited force, & cumulative sense of power, making it remarkable.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:40.

    One of the criminals crucified with Jesus , to the other.