9. Neither the doctor _or_--_nor_ his wife was at home.
10. Both the books look shop-worn. I'll take _neither_--_none_.
=Exercise 131--Except, Without, Unless=
_Except_ and _without_ are prepositions, and are used, therefore, to introduce phrases; _unless_ is a conjunction, and is used to introduce a clause.
In the following sentences insert the correct form, giving a reason for your choice:
1. ---- you leave at once, you will miss your train.
2. I cannot learn to swim, ---- some one teaches me.
3. I cannot learn to swim ---- a teacher.
4. No one could do the work ---- me.
5. John expects to learn ---- studying.
6. John will discover that he cannot win promotion ---- he works hard.
7. No one can learn how to spell ---- first learning how to observe.
8. No one will learn to spell ---- he learns to observe.
9. No one will succeed ---- he has energy and patience.
10. No one will succeed ---- energy and patience.
11. You cannot succeed in any way ---- by seizing each opportunity as it comes.
12. It is impossible to grow beautiful flowers ---- the soil is good.
=Exercise 132--Like, as=
_Like_ is followed by a noun or p.r.o.noun in the objective case. _As_ is a conjunction and introduces a clause, and is therefore followed by a verb. _Like_ is not a conjunction and therefore may not be subst.i.tuted for _as_ or _as if_.
_Wrong_: I wish I could play _like_ you can.
_Right_: I wish I could play _as_ you can.
Insert the correct word in the following sentences:
1. The picture looks just ---- you.
2. I haven't a voice ---- my brother's.
3. I cannot sing ---- my brother can.
4. He walks just ---- you do.
5. I hope you will all enjoy the trip ---- I did.
6. For pleasure and exercise I think there is no game ----tennis.
7. He said that the town looked just ---- it had when he was a boy.
8. I cut the paper just ---- you said I should.
9. He talks ---- his father.
10. He has the same sort of drawl ---- his father [has].
11. She was there ---- you said she would be.
12. They worked ---- beavers.
13. He looked ---- a tramp.
14. To give the st.i.tch the proper twist throw the thread over the needle ---- I do.
15. He walks ---- he were lame.
=Exercise 133--As--as, So--as=
Use _as_--_as_ in stating equality; use _so_--_as_ in negative comparisons.
1. You will find the new clerks fully ---- courteous as were the old.
2. You will not find the new clerks ---- courteous as were the old.
3. Elms do not grow ---- well in this climate as do poplars.
4. We did not carry ---- much advertising this year as we did last year, and we find that our receipts are smaller.
5. Under our system of individual instruction a student may advance ---- rapidly as his ability permits.
6. You are not ---- tall as your sister.
7. I do not seem to learn languages ---- easily as mathematics.
8. This house is not ---- large as the other.
9. He is ---- active as he was twenty years ago.
10. He is not ---- active as he was twenty years ago.