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Rh form a complete sentence; the conjunctions being of course ignored for this purpose.

This type will almost always admit of the emphatic repetition of the verb: 'could produce or ever has produced'.

Use (b): 'One of the finest instruments, if not the finest'.

Use (b): 'as important as drill, if not more so'; 'all that was expected of it, and more'.

All words that precede the first of two correlatives, such as 'not...but', 'both...and', 'neither...nor', are declared by their position to be common; we bracket accordingly in the next examples:

A curious extension, not to be mended in the active; for neither cannot well precede the first of two subjects when they have different verbs.