loose sentence

1. 1.

   a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows

   Broadercomplex sentence

Questions about loose sentence

What does loose sentence mean?

loose sentence means "a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows".

Is loose sentence a common word?

loose sentence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.