Some Conjunctions have their Correspondent Conjunctions belonging to them; so that in the subsequent Member of the Sentence the latter answers to the former: as, although ⸺, yet, or nevertheless; whether ⸺, or; either ⸺, or; neither ⸺, nor; as ⸺, as; expressing a Comparison of equality; “as white as snow:” as ⸺, so; expressing a Comparison sometimes of equality; “as the stars, so shall thy seed be;” that is, equal in number: but most commonly a Comparison in respect of quality; “and it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master:” “as is the good, so is the sinner; as the one dieth, so dieth the other:” that is, in like manner: so ⸺, as; with a Verb expressing a Comparison of quality; “To see thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary:” but with a Negative and an Adjective, a Comparison in respect of quantity; as, “Pompey had eminent abilities: but he was not either so eloquent and politic a statesman, or so brave and skilful a general; nor was he upon the whole so great a man, as Cæsar:” so ⸺, that; expressing a Consequence: &c.[78]
Interjections in English have no Government.
Though they are usually attended with Nouns in the Nominative Case[79], and Verbs in the Indicative Mode, yet the Case and Mode is not influenced by them, but determined by the nature of the sentence.
PUNCTUATION.
Punctuation is the art of marking in writing the several pauses, or rests, between sentences, and the parts of sentences, according to their proper quantity or proportion, as they are expressed in a just and accurate pronunciation.
As the several articulate sounds, the syllables and words, of which sentences consist, are marked by Letters; so the rests and pauses between sentences and their parts are marked by Points.