| 单词 | periodic sentence |
| 释义 | periodic sentence (once / 311035 pages) n WORD FAMILY periodic sentence: periodic sentences USAGE EXAMPLESHe is also very incoherent, spinning interminable periodic sentences, which sometimes do not hang together grammatically or logically. Gozzi, Carlo, The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; V...(2011) The effectiveness of the periodic sentence arises from the prominence which it gives to the main statement. James, Juliet Helena Lumbard, A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific In...(2011) N.B.—In this passage be careful to translate Cicero’s long, periodic sentences by two or more separate sentences in English. Luce, Edmund, Helps to Latin Translation at Sight(2010) n a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause Hyper complex sentence a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause |
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