NOTE V.—­Relative pronouns, being themselves a species of connective words, necessarily exclude conjunctions; except there be two or more relative clauses to be connected together; that is, one to the other.  Example of error:  “The principal and distinguishing excellence of Virgil, and which, in my opinion, he possesses beyond all poets, is tenderness.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 439.  Better:  “The principal and distinguishing excellence of Virgil, an excellence which, in my opinion, he possesses beyond all other poets, is tenderness.”

NOTE VI.—­The word that, (as was shown in the fifth chapter of Etymology,) is often made a pronoun in respect to what precedes it, and a conjunction in respect to what follows it—­a construction which, for its anomaly, ought to be rejected.  For example:  “In the mean time THAT the Muscovites were complaining to St. Nicholas, Charles returned thanks to God, and prepared for new victories.”—­Life of Charles XII.  Better thus:  “While the Muscovites were thus complaining to St. Nicholas, Charles returned thanks to God, and prepared for new victories.”

NOTE VII.—­The words in each of the following pairs, are the proper correspondents to each other; and care should be taken, to give them their right place in the sentence: 

1.  To though, corresponds yet; as, “Though he were dead, yet shall he live.”—­John, xi, 25. 2.  To whether, corresponds or; as, “Whether it be greater or less.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 77.

3.  To either, corresponds or; as, “The constant indulgence of a declamatory manner, is not favourable either to good composition, or [to] good delivery.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 334.

4.  To neither, corresponds nor; as, “John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine.”—­Luke, vii, 33.  “Thou shalt neither vex a stranger nor oppress him.”—­Exod., xxii, 21.

5.  To both, corresponds and; as, “I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise.”—­Rom., i, 14.

6.  To such, corresponds as; (the former being a pronominal adjective, and the latter a relative pronoun;) as, “An assembly such as earth saw never.”—­Cowper.

7.  To such, corresponds that; with, a finite verb following, to express a consequence:  as, “The difference is such that all will perceive it.”

8.  To as, corresponds as; with an adjective or an adverb, to express equality of degree:  as, “And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.”—­2 Kings. v. 27.

9.  To as, corresponds so; with two verbs, to express proportion or sameness:  as, “As two are to four, so are six to twelve.”—­“As the tree falls, so it must lie.”