loose sentence
is one that continues running on after
grammatical completeness has been reached, after the main point
(the rheme) of the utterance has been expressed in at the beginning.
For example: ‘We came to our journey’s end at last, with no small
difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and in bad
weather’. A
periodic sentence
is one that keeps the meaning in
suspense and is not complete until the close: ‘At last, with no small
difficulty, after much fatigue, we came, through deep roads and in
bad weather, to our journey’s end’. A
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