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

Jun 14, 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Oct 3, 2011 · "Let us go/Let us pray" is a special verb construction of the type Let, imperative+us,accusative+bare infinitive. The speaker makes a suggestion and includes himself.

Sep 7, 2022 · Here is an example from Collins It is incredible that the 12-year-old managed to even reach the pedals, let alone drive the car. As I said in a comment, in your second …

Oct 19, 2015 · Let us stay indoors while the weather cools. 1. This can be a request to someone in authority that means: [Please] let us stay indoors while the weather cools. In this case the …

Jul 28, 2016 · 1 Today when it was about time to go home, my English teacher asked me to lead my friends to pray in English. I led them by saying "Let's pray together!" However, my teacher …

May 19, 2021 · There's a relatively common saying, used by at least some speakers of modern English: I'll tell you what let's do. What meaning of let's is used here and what is happening …