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.
