infinitives - Passive of verb "let" : with or without "to" - English ...
25 شعبان 1444 بعد الهجرة · 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 …
The phrase "let alone" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
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 the comma is …
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 …
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?
apostrophe - Etymology of "let us" and "let's" - English Language ...
The verb let means “allow”, “permit”, “not prevent or forbid”, “pass, go or come” and it's used with an object and the bare infinitive. Are you going to let me drive or not? Don't let h...
The passive with "let" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
26 رمضان 1439 بعد الهجرة · 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 …
phrase requests - Other words to replace "let's"? - English …
28 ربيع الأول 1440 بعد الهجرة · 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, …
word order - Is it "Don't let's" or "Let's don't"? - English Language ...
2 ربيع الآخر 1437 بعد الهجرة · Don't let's forget the 1943 Noel Coward song "Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans". If we un-contract, it becomes "Do not let us be beastly to the Germans" which is …
Origin of "the beatings will continue until morale improves"
25 ذو الحجة 1445 بعد الهجرة · What is the origin of the phrase the beatings will continue until morale improves? There is a Metafilter and a Quora out on it, but they are inconclusive, and the phrase …
grammar - Function of verb “to let someone do something”
11 ذو القعدة 1441 بعد الهجرة · Syntactically, "him" is direct object of "allow" and "let", and the semantic (understood) subject of the infinitival clauses. "Him" is called a 'raised object' since the verb that …