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 …

2023年3月17日 · 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 structures. …

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

2011年6月14日 · 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 …

2018年6月10日 · 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 me to come to …

2020年7月2日 · 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 others, …

2013年8月29日 · I find the distinction that MacMillan makes between not to mention and the supposedly synonymous let alone and still/much/even less useful: The phrases let alone and still/much/even less …

2016年2月23日 · 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 clear by the …

2016年4月13日 · 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 Constructions: …

2020年10月24日 · For example, I want to say the meeting time is 11:32 and the location is Blah, and both are exact locations and time, so normally I would use at for these, Let's meet at 11:32 at Blah …