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  2. Loose sentence - Wikipedia

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    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. Construction

  3. Cumulative sentence - Wikipedia

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    Cumulative sentence may refer to: Grammar. Loose sentence, or cumulative sentence, a type of sentence structure; Law. Consecutive terms of imprisonment. See Sentence ...

  4. Cumulativity (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In later work, Krifka has generalized the notion to n-ary predicates, based on the phenomenon of cumulative quantification. For example, the two following sentences appear to be equivalent: John ate an apple and Mary ate a pear. John and Mary ate an apple and a pear. This shows that the relation "eat" is cumulative.

  5. Criminal sentencing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The legislature generally sets a short, mandatory minimum sentence that an offender must spend in prison (e.g. one-third of the minimum sentence, or one-third of the high end of a sentence). The parole board then sets the actual date of prison release, as well as the rules that the parolee must follow when released.

  6. Back-to-back life sentences - Wikipedia

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    The life sentences were not served consecutively (back to back) but the multiple periods of parole ineligibility led to a similar result. The longest period of parole ineligibility was 75 years, handed out to four offenders: Justin Bourque (later reduced to 25 years), John Paul Ostamas, Douglas Garland and Derek Saretzky.

  7. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Another definition of "sentence length" is the number of clauses in the sentence, whereas the "clause length" is the number of phones in the clause. [ 12 ] Research by Erik Schils and Pieter de Haan by sampling five texts showed that two adjacent sentences are more likely to have similar lengths than two non-adjacent sentences, and almost ...

  8. Pros & Cons of Cumulative Preferred Stock - AOL

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    Cumulative preferred stock is an equity investment that guarantees dividend payments to shareholders. Unpaid dividends–also referred to as dividends in arrears–accumulate and are then paid out ...

  9. Telicity - Wikipedia

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    Hence, build a house is correctly characterized as telic and walk around aimlessly as atelic by this definition. Quantization can also be used in the definition of count nouns. An expression 'P' is said to have cumulative reference if and only if, for any choice of x and y, the following implication holds: