loose sentence

American  

noun

1. a sentence that does not end with the completion of its main clause, but continues with one or more subordinate clauses or other modifiers.

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Etymology

Origin of loose sentence

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

This rule refers especially to loose sentences of a particular type, those consisting of two co-ordinate clauses, the second introduced by a conjunction or relative.

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Mind hammering those loose sentences of mine into decent English?

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With this line ends the long, loose sentence that began with line 37.

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A loose sentence may be broken at some point before the end, and up to that point be grammatically a complete sentence.

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But I never supposed such loose sentences would be characteristic of so acute a critic.

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