“As requires as; (expressing equality of degree;) thus, ’Mine is as good as yours.’ As [requires] so; (expressing equality or proportion;) thus, ‘As the stars, so shall thy seed be.’ So [requires] as; (with a negative expressing inequality;) as, ’He is not so wise as his brother.’ So [requires] that; (expressing a consequence:) as, ‘I am so weak that I cannot walk.’” [558]—­Bullions cor.

   “A captious question, sir, (and yours is one,)
    Deserves an answer similar, or none.”—­Cowper cor.

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

“Whatever words the verb TO BE serves to unite, referring to the same thing, must be of the same case; (Sec.61;) as, ’Alexander is a student.’”—­Bullions cor. “When the objective is a relative or [an] interrogative, it comes before the verb that governs it:  (Sec.40, Rule 9:) Murray’s 6th rule is unnecessary.”—­Id. “It is generally improper, except in poetry, to omit the antecedent to a relative; and always, to omit a relative, when of the nominative case.”—­Id. “In every sentence, there must be a verb and a nominative or subject, expressed or understood.”—­Id. “Nouns and pronouns, and especially words denoting time, are often governed by prepositions understood; or are used to restrict verbs or adjectives, without a governing word:  (Sec.50, Rem. 6 and Rule:) as, ‘He gave [to] me a full account of the affair.’”—­Id. “When should is used in stead of ought, to express present duty, (Sec.20, 4,) it may be followed by the present; as, ’You should study that you may become learned.’”—­Id. “The indicative present is frequently used after the words when, till, before, as soon as, after, to express the relative time of a future action:  (Sec.24, I, 4;) as, ’When he comes, he will be welcome.’”—­Id. “The relative is parsed, [according to Bullions,] by stating its gender, number, case, and antecedent; (the gender and number being always the same as those of the antecedent;) thus, ’The boy who’—­’Who is a relative pronoun, masculine, singular, the nominative; and refers to ‘boy’ as its antecedent.”—­Id.

   “’Now, now, I seize, I clasp thy charms;
    And now you burst, ah cruel! from my arms.’—­Pope.

“Here is an unnecessary change from the second person singular to the second person plural. The text would have been better, thus:—­

    ’Now, now, I seize, I clasp your charms;
    And now you burst, ah cruel! from my arms.’”—­John Burn cor.
        See Lowth’s Gram., p. 35; Churchill’s, 293.

SECTION IX.—­ALL POINTS.