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  1. verbs - "Let's" vs. "lets": which is correct? - English Language ...

    Let’s is the English cohortative word, meaning “let us” in an exhortation of the group including the speaker to do something. Lets is the third person singular present tense form of the verb let …

  2. infinitives - Passive of verb "let" : with or without "to" - English ...

    17 Márta 2023 · Page 64 of the fourth edition of Practical English Usage reads Verbs which can be followed, in active structures, by object + infinitive without to, use to-infinitives in passive …

  3. apostrophe - Etymology of "let us" and "let's" - English Language ...

    Let's go out Let's have a party Let's see what happens Let's stand together in this emergency Let's not forget those who sacrificed their lives Questions I believe that let + us is the only instance …

  4. The phrase "let alone" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    14 Meith 2011 · I notice that "let alone" is used in sentences that have a comma. The structure of the sentence is what comes before the comma is some kind of negative statement. Right after …

  5. The passive with "let" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    10 Meith 2018 · Let normally occurs with a clause of some sort as complement, and passive is unlikely with a clausal object: Bill wants me to come to the party would be passivized to *For …

  6. meaning - Difference between Let, Let's and Lets? - English …

    Many people use "let, let's and lets" in conversation What's the difference between them?

  7. grammar - Function of verb “to let someone do something”

    2 Iúil 2020 · Some verbs like let (or sense verbs like see, watch, hear, and feel) can take infinitive object clauses ("complements") without a to; it's a special exception for those verbs only. All …

  8. phrases - Let's get started! or let's get going? - English Language ...

    23 Feabh 2016 · In "Let's get started", the starting point is in view and "Let's get going", you are on the starting point already. Moreover, there is a sense of extra involvement abundantly made …

  9. phrase requests - Other words to replace "let's"? - English …

    6 Noll 2018 · The relationship between z and w, on the other hand…. Otherwise, know that a basic search will turn up let us in innumerable journal articles, official proclamations, formal …

  10. "Let alone" phrase - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    13 Aib 2016 · The let alone construction has been analyzed in great and precise detail in a famous paper by Fillmore, Kay, and O'Connor: " Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical …