A loose sentence (also called a cumulative sentence) is a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases.
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Famous quotes containing the words loose and/or sentence:
“Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing—a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)