EXCEPTION THIRD. Either, corresponding to or, and neither, corresponding to nor or not, are sometimes transposed, so as to repeat the disjunction or negation at the end of the sentence; as, “Where then was their capacity of standing, or his either?”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 359.  “It is not dangerous neither.”—­Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 135.  “He is very tall, but not too tall neither.”—­Spect., No. 475.

OBSERVATIONS ON RULE XXII.

OBS. 1.—­Conjunctions that connect particular words, generally join similar parts of speech in a common dependence on some other term.  Hence, if the words connected be such as have cases, they will of course be in the same case; as, “For me and thee”—­Matt., xvii, 27.  “Honour thy father and thy mother.”—­Ib., xviii, 19.  Here the latter noun or pronoun is connected by and to the former, and governed by the same preposition or verb.  Conjunctions themselves have no government, unless the questionable phrase “than whom” may be reckoned an exception.  See Obs. 17th below, and others that follow it.

OBS. 2.—­Those conjunctions which connect sentences or clauses, commonly unite one sentence or clause to an other, either as an additional assertion, or as a condition, a cause, or an end, of what is asserted.  The conjunction is placed between the terms which it connects, except there is a transposition, and then it stands before the dependent term, and consequently at the beginning of the whole sentence:  as, “He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.”—­Heb., x, 9. “That he may establish the second, he taketh away the first.”

OBS. 3.—­The term that follows a conjunction, is in some instances a phrase of several words, yet not therefore a whole clause or member, unless we suppose it elliptical, and supply what will make it such:  as, “And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, AS to the Lord, AND not unto men”—­Col., iii, 23.  If we say, this means, “as doing it to the Lord, and not as doing it unto men,” the terms are still mere phrases; but if we say, the sense is, “as if ye did it to the Lord, and not as if ye did it unto men,” they are clauses, or sentences.  Churchill says, “The office of the conjunction is, to connect one word with an other, or one phrase with an other.”—­New Gram., p. 152.  But he uses the term phrase in a more extended sense than I suppose it will strictly bear:  he means by it, a clause, or member; that is, a sentence which forms a part of a greater sentence.