Here, for nevertheless and but, we have in the Greek the same particle [Greek:  de].  “Each man’s mind has some peculiarity, as well as his face.”—­Locke.  “Relative pronouns, as well as conjunctions, serve to connect sentences.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 124.  Here the first as corresponds to the second, but well not being used in the literal sense of an adverb, some judicious grammarians take the whole phrase as a conjunction.  It is, however, susceptible of division:  as, “It is adorned with admirable pieces of sculpture, as well modern as ancient.”—­Addison.

OBS. 6.—­So the phrases, for as much as, in as much as, in so much that, if taken collectively, have the nature of conjunctions; yet they contain within themselves correspondent terms and several different parts of speech.  The words are sometimes printed separately, and sometimes partly together.  Of late years, forasmuch, inasmuch, insomuch, have been usually compounded, and called adverbs.  They might as well, perhaps, be called conjunctions, as they were by some of our old grammarians; for two conjunctions sometimes come together:  as, “Answering their questions, as if[314] it were a matter that needed it.”—­Locke.  “These should be at first gently treated, as though we expected an imposthumation,”—­Sharp.  “But there are many things which we must acknowledge to be true, notwithstanding that we cannot comprehend them.”—­Beattie’s Moral Science, p. 211.  “There is no difference, except that some are heavier than others.”—­“We may be playful, and yet innocent; grave, and yet corrupt.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 166.

OBS. 7.—­Conjunctions have no grammatical modifications, and are consequently incapable of any formal agreement or disagreement with other words; yet their import as connectives, copulative or disjunctive, must be carefully observed, lest we write or speak them improperly.  Example of error:  “Prepositions are generally set before nouns and pronouns.”—­Wilbur’s Gram., p. 20.  Here and should be or; because, although a preposition usually governs a noun or a pronoun, it seldom governs both at once.  And besides, the assertion above seems very naturally to mean, that nouns and pronouns are generally preceded by prepositions—­as gross an error as dullness could invent!  L. Murray also says of prepositions:  “They are, for the most part, put before nouns and pronouns.”—­Gram., p. 117.  So Felton:  “They generally stand before nouns and pronouns.”—­Analytic and Prac.  Gram., p. 61.  The blunder however came originally from Lowth, and out of the following admirable enigma:  “Prepositions, standing by themselves in construction, are put before nouns and pronouns; and sometimes after verbs; but in this sort of composition they are chiefly prefixed to verbs:  as, to outgo, to overcome.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 66.