Sunday, January 10, 2010

Cumulative vs. Periodic Sentences

I have provided this link (audio tutorial ) since many of you had a question about these types of sentences while taking the CITR test. Surprisingly, "many of you" selected either the "cumulative (loose)" or the "periodic" sentence as your rhetorical device for the dialectical journals.

Cumulative (loose): main point at the beginning of the sentence.

Periodic: main point is at the end of the sentence.