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Noun Concept
Categories: Grammar, Rhetoric
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periodic sentence  period
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A complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause WordNet 3.0
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A complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A periodic sentence is a sentence with a stylistic device featuring syntactical subordination to a single main idea, which usually is not complete until the very end of the sentence. Wikipedia
A concept in grammar and literary style. Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
complex sentence
phrase
HAS PART
colon
comma
FACET OF
rhetoric
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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periodic sentence
Wikipedia
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periodic sentence
Wikidata
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Periodic sentence
Wikipedia Redirections
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period (rhetoric)

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