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:

    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)

    A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.
    —J.L. (John Langshaw)