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verbs - Lets 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 to permit or allow In the questioner’s examples, the sentence means to say “Product (allows permits you to) do something awesome”, so the form with lets is correct
apostrophe - Etymology of let us and lets - 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 where this type of contraction occurs
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 "let alon
Let alone phrase - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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: The Case of Let Alone ", Language, Vol 64, No 3 (1988:501-38) EDIT: By request The two clauses have to be on a certain scale of meaning; one of the clauses must describe a situation that is less on that scale
The passive with let - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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 the party is wanted by Bill, which is hardly an improvement So let doesn't normally passivize
adjectives - Is Lets get started passive voice or not? - English . . . Because Let us get started is an imperative statement, there is an implied subject You let us get started This construction, with the implied subject, is a standard active voice construction We can see how it would look in passive voice by swapping the subject and object: We are allowed to get started by you
Not to Mention ≈ [Let Alone ≈ Much Less ≈ Still Less] 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 reinforce a negative or unlikely statement that precedes them The still much even less constructs reinforce the negativity of the preceding phrase by subtraction -- Negative statement, still much even less
phrases - Lets get started! or lets get going? - English Language . . . 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 sentence, " Let's start going"