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Par.457, 458.] ADVERBIAL CLAUSES.

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negative, "but" is used, partly as an Adversative
Conjunction, and partly with a Relative force —
(1) "No sooner did lie hear her but he burst into a
passion."
(2) " I had scarcely gone a mile but I met him again."
In the last Example the negative is implied: "I
had not gone a mile." In Modern English it will
be advisable to treat " but," when thus used, as an
Adversative Conjunction, as though the sentence
ran, " He had not fully heard her; but (before fully
hearing her) he burst into a passion."
457 " Since " once meant " later-than," hence " after,"
hence " because;" (Early English, sith than, i.e.
"later than.")
"Until" is the same as "unto;" "til" being
often used for " to " in Early English. Par. 376.
"That" used for "because: " see Par. 449.
"That" is used for "so that" in impassioned
questions: -
(1) " Is he an oracle, (so) that we are to regard him
as infallible "
(2) "What were you doing, (so) that you were not
in time to-day?"
458 "Forasmuch as" and " Inasmuch as" =
"for that," " in that," i.e. " because."