“As—as for So—as. ‘He is not as good as she.’ Say, not so good. In affirmative statements the rule is different: He is as good as she.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
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