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 …

Mar 17, 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 structures. …

Jun 14, 2011 · It's actually the opposite of "or even." The excellent example below of "I wouldn't go near a stingray, let alone pet one" demonstrates this. If you wanted to use "or even" with this sentence, …

Apr 13, 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 Constructions: …

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

Dec 6, 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 invitations, …

Jun 10, 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 me to come to …

Feb 23, 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 clear by the …

Jul 2, 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 others, like …

Aug 29, 2013 · 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 …