periodic sentence love

periodic sentence

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end; for example,

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  • noun rhetoric A sentence whose main clause appears at its end.

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  • noun a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause

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