_Just
as_=_just at the time at which_. _Just_ here modifies _at the time_. _At
the time_ is represented in the diagram by the first element of the _as_
line.
The +adverb clause+ may express +place+.
7. Where the snow falls, there is freedom.
8. Pope skimmed the cream of good sense and expression wherever he could
find it.
9. The wind bloweth where it listeth.
The +adverb clause+ may express +degree+.
10. Washington was as good as he was great.
+Explanation+.--The adverb clause _as he was great_ modifies the first
_as_, which is an adverb modifying _good_. The first _as_, modified by the
adverb clause, answers the question, Good to what extent or degree? The
second _as_ modifies _great_ and performs the office of a conjunction, and
is therefore a conjunctive adverb. Transposing, and expanding _as ... as_
into two phrases, we have, Washington was good _in the degree in which_ he
was great. See diagram of (3) and of (20).
11. The wiser he grew, the humbler he became. [Footnote: _The_, here, is
not the ordinary adjective _the_. It is the Anglo-Saxon demonstrative
pronoun used in an instrumental sense. It is here an adverb. The first
_the_ = _by how much_, and modifies _wiser_; the second _the_ = _by so
much_, and modifies _humbler_.
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