“Where are we now, coachman?”
SYNTAX.
“The third part of Grammar, Sir, wot treats of the agreement and construction of words in a sentence.”
“Does a coachman say wot for which because he has a licence?”
“Can’t say, Ma’am?”
“Drive on, coachman.”
And we must drive on, or boil on, or whatever it is the fashion to call getting on in these times.
A sentence is an aggregate of words forming a complete sense.
Sometimes, however, a sentence is an aggregate of words forming complete nonsense: as,
“They are very civil and attentive to the smallest order, and furnish a house entirely complete, for twenty-seven guineas, all new and well seasoned.”—Advertisement in the Times.