Gram., p. 124; Smith’s, 95; Fisk’s, 84; Ingersoll’s, 81.  By “the same moods, tenses, or cases,” we must needs here understand some one mood, tense, or case, in which the connected words agree; and, if the conjunction has any thing to do with this agreement, or sameness of mood, tense, or case, it must be because words only, and not sentences, are connected by it.  Now, if, that, though, lest, unless, or any other conjunction that introduces the subjunctive, will almost always be found to connect different moods, or rather to subjoin one sentence to another in which there is a different mood.  On the contrary, and, as, even, than, or, and nor, though they may be used to connect sentences, do, in very many instances, connect words only; as, “The king and queen are an amiable pair.”—­Murray. “And a being of more than human dignity stood before me.”—­Dr. Johnson. It cannot be plausibly pretended, that and and than, in these two examples, connect clauses or sentences.  So and and or, in the examples above, connect the nouns only, and not “sentences:”  else our common rules for the agreement of verbs or pronouns with words connected, are nothing but bald absurdities.  It is idle to say, that the construction and meaning are not what they appear to be; and it is certainly absurd to contend, that conjunctions always connect sentences; or always, words only.  One author very strangely conceives, that, “Conjunctions may be said either always to connect words only, or always to connect sentences, according to the view which may be taken of them in analyzing.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. 77.

OBS. 6.—­“Several words belonging to other parts of speech, are occasionally used as conjunctions.  Such are the following:  provided, except, verbs; both, an adjective; either, neither, that, pronouns; being, seeing, participles; before, since, for, prepositions.  I will do it, provided you lend some help.  Here provided is a conjunction, that connects the two sentences.  ’Paul said, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.’  Here except is a conjunction. Excepting is also used as a participle and conjunction. ’Being this reception of the gospel was so anciently foretold.’—­Bishop Pearson. ’Seeing all the congregation are holy.’—­Bible.  Here being and seeing are used as conjunctions.”—­Alexander’s Gram:, p. 50.  ’The foregoing remark, though worthy of some attention, is not altogether accurate. Before, when it connects sentences, is not a conjunction, but a conjunctive adverb. Provided, as cited above, resembles not the verb, but the perfect participle. Either and neither, when they are not conjunctions, are pronominal adjectives, rather than pronouns.  And, to say, that, “words