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Loose, Balanced, Parallel, and Periodic Sentences With a special appearance by Dangling Modifier! From a rhetorical point of view, sentences are loose, periodic, or balanced. I. loose sentence and periodic sentence 1. A loose sentence puts the main idea before all supplementary information; in other words, it puts first things first, and lets the reader know what it is mainly about when he has read the first few words. The reverse arrangement makes a periodic sentence: the main idea is expressed at or near the end of it, and it is not grammatically complete until the end is reached. The re