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)
“Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)