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:
“But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)