① His house is twice as big as mine.

= His house is as big again as mine.

② This is twice the length of that.

③ In grain, the Japanese farmer does about twice as well, and his yield of such fruits as strawberries is probably three times as great as the average in America.

④ It might seem that a country so small as Holland could not support a large population. Nevertheless, the country has about two thirds as many inhabitants as the state of New York which is four times as large.

① No historian starts with a blank mind as a jury is supposed to do.

② Ken didn't work very hard as Tom did.

① He speaks English (as) fluently as if he were an American.

= He speaks English (as) fluently as (he would speak English fluently) if he were an American.

② The boy was as wet as if he had been swimming in the river with all his clothes on.

= The boy was as wet as (he would have been wet) if he had been swimming in the river with all his clothes on.

① There are few countries in which the foreign traveller is so disappointed and irritated.

② I have never felt so thirsty.

③ There has surely never been a period in our literary history when poetry was so little read and the poet so little recognized.

④ I want twice as much. = I want as much again as that.

⑤ I have two hundred postage stamps here and as many again at home.

① This tool is as useful as anything.

② She longed for her son to come, and got as uneasy as any other mother if he did not come.

③ He is as brave a soldier as (any soldier that has) ever shouldered a gun (was brave).

① In today’s world, this theory is not accepted so commonly and uncritically as was the case a century and a half ago.

② Some people will say that there are many flaws in democratic government. There are. But the fact remains that nothing so far achieved in government works so well for the greatest number and depends so little upon force as democratic systems.

③ Oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.

④ He could not so much as write his own name.

⑤ As I had not so much as heard of it, I told him I knew nothing about it.

① He is as wise as a monkey.

② He is as poor as a church mouse.

③ They are as like as chalk and cheese.

④ I am as anxious to learn all I can about your country as you are to learn about mine.

⑤ She works as carefully as she does quickly.

⑥ The poor novelist of the bygone time has about as much chance as an accordion in a thunderstorm.

⑦ The sky is as blue as blue can be.

⑧ As many as five of the twelve soon believed that his views were just.

⑨ Mrs. Curie treated as much as twenty kilograms of pitch-blend at a time.

⑩ The work was finished as late as last month.

⑪ He made six mistakes in as many lines.

⑫ I waited for fifteen minutes——they seemed as many hours.

⑬ The lamps shone like so many stars.

⑭ He has two books, but has to buy as many more.

⑮ The boys climbed the tree like so many monkeys.

⑯ I don’t believe she had five short days’ good health in as many long years.

⑰ Here is ten dollars, and I have as much at home.

⑱ “I’ve quarrelled with my husband.” “I guessed as much.”

⑲ He was caught cheating in the examination. I thought as much.

⑳ “No, thank you.” She told me just as much.

㉑ He was greatly respected, and his brother as much despised.

㉒ He looks upon any time not spent in study as so much lost.

㉓ He was as good as dead after so much exercise.

㉔ I try to be as good as my word.

㉕ The monkey devoured every chestnut as fast as it was pulled out.

㉖ As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but sand.

㉗ He was all right as far as money went.

㉘ One may as well not know a thing at all as know it but imperfectly.

① He took whatever action he thought necessary.

= He took any action that he thought necessary.

② Whoever comes will be welcome.

= Anyone who comes will be welcome.

③ The new store gave a present to whoever visited it on its opening day.

= The new store gave a present to anyone who visited it on its opening day.

④ I’ll sell it to whomever you recommend to me.

= I’ll sell it to anyone whom you recommend to me.

⑤ He told the story to whoever would listen.

= He told the story to anyone who would listen.

⑥ He told the story to whomever he met.

= He told the story to anyone whom he met.

⑦ In a trying situation you can also look for whatever element of humour may be present. The ability to laugh things off has saved many an awkward situation in the classroom and social life.

= In a trying situation you can also look for any element of humour that may be present.

⑧ You will find him home whenever you call on him.

= You will find him home, no matter when you may call on him.

⑨ Whosever it was, it is now mine.

= No matter whose it was, it is now mine.

① There has not been a statesman of eminence but was a man of industry.

② There wasn’t a human being in this town but knew that the boy was a perfect idiot.

① He offered more than could be expected.

② Young men and women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case.