A cumulative sentence is known as a “loose sentence,” that starts with an independent clause or main clause, which is simple and straight, provides main idea, and then adds subordinate elements or modifiers. It adds subordinate or modifying elements after the subject and the predicate. Writers use these types of sentences when they want to put forth the main idea first, and provide details to elucidate the idea further thereafter. They use these details in the form of dependent or subordinate phrases or clauses.
“The festival . . . We were watching in the lounge . . . time for the gates to open . . . celebration to begin . . . great throng . . . purified . . . ready to enter . . . The twelve guards came.” Tom was gesturing wildly between gasps. “Such glorious pomp . . . beautiful . . . We were anticipating the ceremonies: the Changing of the Guards . . . the Unlocking of the Gates.”
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