10. So is used before as; with an adjective or an adverb, to limit the degree by comparison:  as, “How can you descend to a thing so base as falsehood?”

11. So is used before as; with a negative preceding, to deny equality of degree:  as, “No lamb was e’er so mild as he.”—­Langhorne.  “Relatives are not so useful in language as conjunctions.”—­BEATTIE:  Murray’s Gram., p. 126.

12.  To so, corresponds as; with an infinitive following, to express a consequence:  as, “We ought, certainly, to read blank verse so as to make every line sensible to the ear”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 332.

13.  To so, corresponds that; with a finite verb following, to express a consequence:  as, “No man was so poor that he could not make restitution.”—­Milman’s Jews, i, 113. “So run that ye may obtain.”—­1 Cor., ix, 24.

14.  To not only, or not merely, corresponds but, but also, or but even; as, “In heroic times, smuggling and piracy were deemed not only not infamous, but [even] absolutely honourable.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 15.  “These are questions, not of prudence merely, but of morals also.”—­Dymond’s Essay, p. 82.

NOTE VIII.—­“When correspondent conjunctions are used, the verb, or phrase, that precedes the first, applies [also] to the second; but no word following the former, can [by virtue of this correspondence,] be understood after the latter.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 353.  Such ellipses as the following ought therefore in general to be avoided:  “Tones are different both from emphasis and [from] pauses.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, i, 250.  “Though both the intention and [the] purchase are now past.”—­Ib., ii, 24.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE XXII.

EXAMPLES UNDER NOTE I.—­TWO TERMS WITH ONE.

“The first proposal was essentially different and inferior to the second.”—­Inst., p. 171.

[FORMULE,—­Not proper, because the preposition to is used with joint reference to the two adjectives different and inferior, which require different prepositions.  But, according to Note 1st under Rule 22d, “When two terms connected are each to be extended and completed in sense by a third, they must both be such as will make sense with it.”  The sentence may be corrected thus:  “The first proposal was essentially different from the second, and inferior to it.”]