Story telling: Using language to tell a story or retell an event. There are four sentence functions in English: declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative.
The main clause is very short and straight, telling someone has wept thereafter, the author has given a detailed description of why someone, mentioned in the main clause, wept silently. Writing: Writing sentences that clearly depict ones thoughts and ideas. This is another very good example of cumulative sentence. “He wept silently, after the custom of shamed and angry men, so that when the pursuit party came tumbling, pounding, scrabbling down the trail, past the fold in which he and Hillel stood concealed, he could hear the creak and rattle of their leather armor with its scales of horn and when the Arsiyah returned, just before daybreak, at the very hour when all of creation seemed to fall silent as if fighting off tears, Zelikman could hear the rumbling of the men’s bellies and the grit in their eyelids and the hollowness of failure sounding in their chests.” Hereafter I hope to elucidate at length these phenomena of expression. Perhaps you will be good enough to elucidate this new mystery.
Toryl, somewhat deflated, but by no means defeated, hastened to elucidate. Example #4: Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure (by Michael Chabon) Lindsay attempted to elucidate the action of the intumescence in raising and depressing the petiole, in the following manner. Preposition Basics A Few Rules Prepositions Following Verbs and Adjectives Ending a Sentence With a Preposition Prepositional Phrases and Wordiness. The main clause is about carts, and then there are further details that explain how carts move down the road. This is a perfect description of a cumulative sentence.
“The unwieldy provision carts, draught horses, and heavily armed knights kept the advance down to nine miles a day, the huge horde moving in three parallel columns, cutting broad highways of litter and devastation through an already abandoned countryside, many of the adventurers now traveling on foot, having sold their horses for bread or having slaughtered them for meat.”
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