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	Period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Periodization, is the attempt to categorize or divide time, or history, into discrete named blocks.
		Periodic table, a table of the chemical elements arranged based on their chemical and physical similarities and differences.
		Periodic table period, which is a row of elements in the periodic table.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Periodic (358 words)

	DCBA Brief, Judicial Practice A Sentence of Periodic Imprisonment The Scope of the Rules
		Traditionally a sentence of periodic imprisonment was imposed to resolve the conflict between the necessity of a jail sentence and desirability of maintaining gainful employment.
		However, those sentenced to periodic imprisonment in DuPage County are committed to serve their periodic imprisonment in the DuPage County Jail, a county correctional institution.
		A sentence of periodic imprisonment may be modified or revoked by the court if the offender commits another offense, violates any of the conditions of the sentence, or violates any of the rules and regulations of the institution, agency or Department to which he had been committed.
	www.dcba.org /brief/judpractice/0699.htm (3550 words)

	Periodic sentence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Periodicity is accomplished by the use of parallel phrases or clauses at the opening or by the use of dependent clauses preceding the independent clause; that is, the kernel of thought contained in the subject/verb group appears at the end of a succession of modifiers.
		Periodic sentences are common in Greek and Latin writers such as Cicero, who is generally considered to be the Western world's master in this rhetorical device.
		It is this type of sentence, taught in oratory classes, from which derives the American use of the word "period" to mean the punctuation mark that the Britons call a full stop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Periodic_sentence (272 words)

	10 Steps to Writing an Essay -- Stage 10a: Clarity
		Periodic and cumulative sentences are two advanced options for creating a strong sense of rhythm and emphasis in your sentence.
		The periodic sentence is one in which the main clause is considerably delayed, whereas the cumulative sentence opens quickly with the main clause, and then adds on multiple nonrestrictive clauses after it.
		Periodic sentence: Sigmund Freud, a German psychologist born in the late nineteenth century, and famous for his controversial theories about early-childhood psychological formation and other adult disorders, including suicide, patricide, and matricide, omitted essential data formulating his theories.
	www.aucegypt.edu /academic/writers/language_clarity.htm (1299 words)

	Periodicity
		Both types require at least two elements, the difference being that in the simple period a single thought (or proposition) is brought around to its close through a structure of suspense and anticipation, while in the complex period different thoughts or propositions are so arranged that they come to a well-rounded close.
		A sentence with only one main verb may be periodic, if there are subordinate structures that contain in themselves a proposition: subordinate clauses, predicative participles, even appositional structures that offer a proposition.
		A sentence with two main verbs must rely upon devices of suspense and foreshadowing if the audience is to understand that the thought is not complete when the first main clause is over.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /latin/latin_prose_comp/periodicity.htm (665 words)

	Kola, Clauses, and the Periodic Sentence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The main point to bear in mind when first confronted by a lengthy Ciceronian period is that every periodic sentence is entirely made up of smaller parts, and that these units are much easier to work with individually than the whole sentence taken at once.
		Reading a periodic sentence, then, is a circular, or, better, a spiral process: readers use their understanding of clause relationships to inform their interpretation of clause meaning; this enhanced awareness of meaning is used to clarify the nature of the sentence's structure; and the process is repeated until a complete understanding is achieved.
		That Cicero's meaning so often fails to emerge for newcomers to the periodic sentence is largely the result of the tendency of beginning Latin readers to skim swiftly over steps 1 and 2 and proceed straight on to step 3.
	www.classics.cam.ac.uk /catr/ciceroSite/Language/Periods/kola1.htm (838 words)

	The Order of a Sentence
		Not all sentences make a single point -- compound sentences, especially, may present several equally-important pieces of information -- but most of the time, when you write a sentence, there is a single argument, statement, question, or command which you wish to get across.
		When you are writing your sentences, do not bury your main point in the middle; instead, use one of the positions of emphasis at the beginning or end of the sentence.
		While a periodic sentence can be useful for making an important point or for a special dramatic effect, it is also much more difficult to read, and often requires readers to go back and reread the sentence once they understand the main point.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/sntorder.html (602 words)

	State v. Felix (7/12/2002) ap-1808
		Rather, he declared that he was adjusting Felixs sentence in the interest of fairness because he had told Felix at the original sentencing hearing that he would give her time to take care of her affairs, but had been unable to do so because Felix could not arrange a suitable third-party custodian at that time.
		Such a sentence should be employed as a method for achieving defined sentencing goals not as a method for granting defendants a weekend pass.
		Certainly a court should have the authority to sentence the offender to a sentence of imprisonment but to fashion the sentence so that the offender is released to fish during the short season.
	www.touchngo.com /ap/html/ap-1808.htm (5584 words)

	sentences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It may stand alone as one short sentence as in the examples above, or it may be buried inside a longer sentence.
		It is the kernel that you have left after you chop away everything in a sentence except its essential meaning; it is the kernel you build on when you want to make a sentence longer.
		Remember, a sentence is a thing of movable parts, an endlessly adaptable structure that is completely subject to the writer's will, shrinking or expanding to fit the sound and sense he or she chooses to give it.
	jade.ccccd.edu /cobb/sentences.html (869 words)

	Lawlink NSW: 8. Periodic Detention
		Periodic detention requires an offender to remain in custody for two days of each week for the duration of the sentence.
		Persons are sentenced to periodic detention on the basis that it curtails their liberty by detaining them for part of the week as well as making them perform community service work.
		A sentence of periodic detention should require the offender to serve the sentence in a detention centre for the necessary days per week.
	www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au /lrc.nsf/pages/DP33CHP8 (2399 words)

	Lawlink NSW: 6. Periodic Detention
		When revoking an order for periodic detention, a court should have the discretion to impose a term of imprisonment which is less than the unexpired portion of the periodic detention order where the court considers this to be appropriate in the circumstances of the case.
		It amounts to an administrative interference with the sentence imposed by the court, in so far as a committee composed of officers from the Department of Corrective Services may alter the form of the sentence to be served from that which was originally envisaged by the sentencing court.
		Periodic detention already has an inherent element of leniency, and to permit offenders to remain outside custody for a portion of their sentence unspecified by the court makes it an even more lenient sentencing option.
	www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au /lrc.nsf/pages/R79CHP6 (7736 words)

	Greek 701: Greek Sentence Structure
		Such sentences are indeed the most neatly "rounded" and "directed toward a finish-line", but a longer period expressing complex ideas would be difficult for an audience to follow if they had to keep track of multiple suspensions of meaning and multiple subordinations until the final kolon.
		In addition to Adams' distinction between periods involving suspension of sense, antithesis, and parallelism one should take note of the more fundamental distinction which Demetrios draws between three types of period, according to how tightly they are constructed: the rhetorical period, the historical period, and the philosophical period or period of dialogue.
		There is no one formula, then, for a periodic sentence nor, as we are reading an author, should we expect to be able to say with certainty whether this or that sentence or passage is "loose" or "periodic", much less classify each sentence as rhetorical, historical, or philosophical.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /dept/class/rhetfig2.htm (3804 words)

	The Impact of Sentence Types (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The trouble with considering the sentence as unit in Milton begins with the vagaries of 17th century punctuation in which colons, semi-colons, and even commas mark the ends of grammatical sentences.
		The period is a peculiar emphasis in the poem.
		The reverse of the loose, a periodic sentence holds its main clause until the last, preceeded by its dependent syntax.
	www.uh.edu /~ghawkins/milton/impact.html (838 words)

	Beyond Primer Prose: Two Ways to Imitate the Masters
		A periodic sentence is one in which the reader must wait for the other shoe to drop; the structure of the sentence creates a sense of suspense.
		The subject of the sentence may be introduced toward its beginning, but the rest of the core sentence—which completes its meaning—is held in abeyance until near the end.
		In a loosely constructed sentence, the basic grammatical form and meaning is completed in the beginning of the sentence, and a string of details—qualifying phrases and clauses—follow.
	www.writingproject.org /cs/nwpp/lpt/nwpr/1792 (1117 words)

	OWLglossary
		In a periodic sentence, you open with introductory subordinate phrases and clauses, which lead up to the subject, predicate, and object the main part of the sentence.
		Periodic sentences also can be particularly useful as you make transitions between your body paragraphs.
		Long periodic sentences may make important distinctions for you, even as they tax your reader's attention; short loose sentences should give your reader a break by suggesting the points at which your discussion is clearest.
	web.cwoc.ufl.edu /owl/OWLglossaryCopy.html (2608 words)

	Sierpinski Tautology Map
		Each of our sentence letters, in other words, can be thought of as having infinitely periodic truth-tables which otherwise follow the standard scheme used for constructing truth-tables of finite length.
		The largest period possible for a complex sentence of this sort will in fact be the longest period of its sentence-letter components.
		It is important to note, however, that not all periodic binary decimals will have a corresponding formula; those periodic in multiples of 3, for example, will not be producible by finite combination from sentence-letters periodic in powers of 2.
	www.sunysb.edu /philosophy/fractal/Sierpins.html (2671 words)

	Discussion Paper 33: SENTENCING. Chapter 8: Periodic Detention
		8.1 A court may impose a sentence of imprisonment of not less than three months and not more than three years and order that the sentence be served by way of periodic detention.
		8.3 Periodic detention is designed to meet the community's demand for custodial punishment which provides a deterrent not only to the offender but to others who might be tempted to offend.
		These include where a periodic detainee is subsequently convicted of an offence,[28] where cancellation is requested on the application of a detainee or the Commissioner,[29] or where it appears to the court that there is good reason for cancelling an order.
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/other/nswlrc/dp33/chap8.html (2737 words)

	Writing Sentences
		Another way to create more complex sentences is by using an independent clause joined with word groups (individual words, phrases or clauses) that modify the independent clause but take a less important place in the sentence than the independent clause.
		A sentence fragment is a group of words which is used as a sentence but does not have the subject-predicate form described above.
		Periodic sentence: John, the tough one, the sullen kid who scoffed at any show of sentiment, gave his mother flowers.
	www.azed.us /students/languagearts/la68lessons/2la68s/sentences.html (1570 words)

	Greek 701: Greek Sentence Structure
		When analyzing complex sentences, however, it is easy to forget that the goal of arranging words "rhetorically" is to shape a sentence which develops clearly as it is heard or read, not to distract the audience with pointless ornamentation.
		As silly as these sentences are, they illustrate an important point: unlike a simple narration in the running style, a periodic sentence will highlight the main point(s) the writer is trying to put across and will require the writer to decide how various events or ideas are related.
		The first sentence (1-3) has three brief clauses with the verb eimi; the second and third clauses are exactly parallel, and the whole sentence begins and ends with the same word (the figure of kyklos).
	web.gc.cuny.edu /dept/class/rhetfig.htm (5901 words)

	WritersDigest.com - Writing Tip of the Week - Battle writer's block with writing tips, ideas and motivation
		In casual conversation, most people tend to use "loose sentences"; that is, sentences that get the information across without consciously building to a climax.
		Loose sentences generally start with the most important bit of information, and then have extra phrases, modifiers and additional information tacked on, rather like this sentence here which has a lot more words in it than it needs, especially since the real point was made in the first clause.
		This kind of sentence is referred to as "periodic," because you're trying to move the reader along in your sentence to the climax, which should occur at or near the period.
	www.writersdigest.com /tipoftheweek.asp?id=1879 (496 words)

	periodic_sentences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The usual structure of sentences in English places the subject and verb in the first part of the sentence; this pattern is known as a cumulative sentence.
		Sometimes, however, a writer prefers to build up to the subject and verb and consequently puts them at the end of the sentence; that pattern is known as a periodic sentence, as the essential subject and verb appear near the period.
		Alienating his supporters and endangering his chances for re-election, the senator refused to retreat from his position.
	www2.uic.edu /~jbaski1/periodic.htm (102 words)

	Writing for Readers Who Scan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For you non-English majors, periodic sentences are long, complex sentences, often with several introductory clauses, in which the main point is delayed until the end for dramatic effect.
		Perhaps the 21 percent of readers who don't scan online would be willing to read a periodic sentence on a computer screen.
		If you place "however" later in the sentence, you bury the transition and make the sentence less scannable.
	www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=836621 (747 words)

	UsingEnglish.com ESL Forum - View Single Post - What are loose sentences? Periodic sentences?
		John was happy that as a result of hard work for the first time ever he got an A on his report card.
		As a result of celebrating and drinking too much champagne, John was drunk.
		Write some loose sentences, some periodic sentences, and some combination sentences.
	www.usingenglish.com /forum/12433-post1.html (113 words)

	Structure of English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For purposes of analysing style, sentences may be described as
		Here the writer or speaker has a concern for symmetry - the second half of the sentence contains a similar or opposite idea to the first half.
		These techniques are very effective in persuasion, and are sometimes known as parallelism or antithesis.
	babelnet.sbg.ac.at /themepark/grammar/sentencestyles.htm (247 words)

	Revision Workshop: Sentence Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Revise your paratactic sentence into a periodic sentence, making its structure as tight and deliberate as possible.
		Try to create some suspense, so that the final element of the sentence is a surprise.
		Create a balanced sentence, consisting of two clauses, in which some part of the first clause is repeated in the second clause.
	www.elmhurst.edu /~bridgeto/eng105web/105style.html (257 words)

	Rivkin to serve sentence at Silverwater - BusinessNews - www.smh.com.au
		The report concluded the 59-year-old broker should continue to serve his weekend periodic detention sentence.
		Yesterday, Rivkin's family said the broker would remain in the care of a Sydney psychiatric hospital between periods of weekend detention.
		Rivkin was ordered to serve his sentence at Silverwater Periodic Detention Centre but on Friday turned up at the maximum-security Long Bay jail where he spent his first full weekend of detention in the prison hospital.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/10/1076175146363.html (306 words)

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