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Paired conjunctions

Paired conjunctions suggest parts of equal importance and require that those parts be of the same (or at least similar) construction. They often connote something remarkable about the pairing. Common pairs: both . . . and; not only . . . but also; either . . . or, neither . . . nor, just as . . . so.

But just as software has transformed the Internet, so the Internet will transform software.

The inversion of software and Internet to Internet and software, with a shift in tense from has transformed to will transform, is signaled by the pair just as and so.

Nothing, neither a belief nor a piece of stone nor a memory, was wasted there, and never has been.

Today, with the globalization of American culture, it's clear that we won not only the cold war but also the battle for the world's leisure time.

Just as old does not necessarily mean feeble, (so) older does not necessarily mean sicker.

With just as . . . so, you can drop the word so if the sentence makes sense without it.

This was a deal made both easier, and worse, by the fact that, at the eleventh hour, plummeting deficit estimates from the Congressional Budget Office gave the negotiators an extra $225 billion in projected revenues over five years to play with.

America's navy and air force tend to see a battleship as a big open space containing either friends, to be protected, or foes, to be destroyed.

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