Notes.—1. When as introduces an adjective clause, the verb of the clause is frequently omitted; as, “Their military code bore the same stern features as their other laws (bore).”—Prescott.
2. The use of the relative pronoun as after as many has been extended so that we find it after as few, as much, as little; as, “She was done for and bought for ten pounds by the landlord of the Drummond Arms, Crieff, who had been taking as much money out of her, and putting as little corn into her, as was compatible with life.”—Dr. John Brown.
3. The word such, which usually precedes a noun modified by an as-clause, may follow the noun instead; as, “The walls did not flow or subside to the valley in charming curve-lines, such as I have seen in the wildest passes of the New England mountains.”—King. Instead of transposing such, which would alter the meaning slightly, we may say that it is a pronominal in apposition with curve-lines and modified by the restrictive adjective clause as I have seen, etc.
2. A conjunctive adverb.—This is equivalent to a phrase consisting of a preposition and a relative pronoun, and is used interchangeably with such a phrase. Its function in the clause is the same as that of the phrase, that is, it modifies the verb. The commonest of these adverbs are when (= in which or on which), where (= in which or on which), whither (= toward which), whence (= from which). Others less used are wherein, whereon, whereof, wherethrough, wherefrom, wherewith, whereupon, wherefore, whereby, whereat. For example,—
Our works are the mirrors wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments.—Carlyle.
Some day you may reach that time when a man lives in greater part for memory and by memory.—Lushington.
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.—Tennyson.
3. The subordinating conjunction that.—This is often used to introduce restrictive clauses modifying a word denoting time. It is equivalent to a phrase like in which; for example, “At last the season comes that the sixtieth minute is due.”