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)
“It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicality ... sentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all—stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)