periodic sentence

1. 1.

   a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause

   Broadercomplex sentence

Questions about periodic sentence

What does periodic sentence mean?

periodic sentence means "a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause".

Is periodic sentence a common word?

periodic 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.