"Nor has any one reason to complain for want of farther information, unless he can shew his claim to it."

"But though we are sufficiently instructed for the common purposes of life," &c.*

That, expressing the motive or end, will have the subjunctive mode; generally however in the tenses formed with MAY or the conditional of SHALL, as,

"Full well ye reject the commandment of God that ye may keep your own tradition.Ӡ Lest governs a subjunctive, as,

"Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed

lest he fall." ‡

pre

THAN and As, expressing a comparison of the qualities of persons or things, govern no mode; but like all conjunctions require to be followed by the same cases, modes, and tenses as have ceded it, -as "thou art wiser THAN I (am),—. YOU ARE not so tall As I (am),—you think him handsomer THAN (you think) me, and you love him more THAN (you love) me. In all other instances if you complete the sentence in like manner by supplying the part which is un

* Bishop Butler.

+ Mark. + 1 Cor.

derstood, the case of the latter noun will be determined; thus, Plato observes that God geometrizes, and the same thing was observed by a wiser man THAN he,—that is, than he was. It was well observed by Plato, but more elegantly by Solomon THAN him, that is, than by him." >> *

Some conjunctions have certain corresponding

ones which must always follow them, as,

1. THOUGH, although

...

YET, neverthe

less, as,

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Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor."

2. WHETHER .... OR; as, whether he will go OR not I cannot tell.

NOR I can accomplish it.

It is a fault to confound these, and use or, as the following conjunction to neither.

5. As .... as; expressing a comparison of equality, as, she is AS amiable AS her sister. A vulgar redundance has crept into common

* Lowth's Grammar, p. 180.

parlance occasionally, and equally as, is used instead of as; but equally is an adverb; and an adverb stands only with a verb or an adjective; therefore if equally be used, the sentence must be so turned as to let the adverb modify the adjective, as, she and her sister are EQUALLY amiable.

6. As .... so; expressing a comparison of resemblance; as, "As the stars so shall they be." And it shall be As with the people so with the priest, &c. As the one dieth so dieth the other. Sometimes they are reversed, as, Vesuvius is not so high as Etna.

7. So.... THAT, expressing a consequence, as, he was so offended THAT he left the room.

When the verb is compounded with an auxiliary, the conjunction and usually causes the omission of all but the participle in the second verb, as, I have been AND TOLD him, instead of I have been and I have told him.

9. Interjection.

Interjections are not commonly supposed to have any government, nevertheless we always

find an accusative after ah and oh, as, ah ME! what do I hear? probably therefore the preposition for is understood, i. e. ah for me! as it is always expressly written after alas, as, alas for my children! alas for thee!

THE END.

CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK.