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)
“Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)