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- verbs - Lets vs. lets: which is correct? - English Language . . .
Here's an easy way to figure out which to use: replace the word lets with the words let us If the sentence still makes sense, then use the contractual form Let's try a few examples: Lets let's see how it can be done (should be Let's) Flubber let's lets you jump high (should be lets) Let's lets go to the movie after dinner (should be Let's)
- The passive with let - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Note that let does not allow a simple noun phrase as direct object: i e, *Bill let it is ungrammatical (except for the sense of let that means 'rent') 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
- The phrase let alone - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The sentence "I wouldn't go near a stingray, let alone pet one" implies that the speaker would stop far short of even being in a situation to do what follows the "let alone" clause They wouldn't go near a stingray, therefore it is out of the question that they would pet one
- phrase requests - Other words to replace lets? - English Language . . .
Thus you don't need to always change each Let's Let us with a "replacement" however we will presume you do, so we could replace let us with •We want to see x and y We shall start with x •Now, we can see the relationship between z and w Using we on occasion instead of us will avoid the sense of repetition
- Origin of the beatings will continue until morale improves
The earliest closely relevant match I've been able to find for this expression is from a cartoon by Lt B E Lodge, U S Navy, submitted for the All-Navy Cartoon Contest and published in All Hands: The Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin (November 1961) with the following caption:
- Correctly say I will let you know with further updates
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- differences - Lept vs. leapt vs. leaped - English Language . . .
Almost ten years ago, I checked and recorded the relative popularity of leaped and leapt in Google results, because the following assertion in Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (1989) intrigued me:
- pronouns - Difference between Let us go and Let we go? - English . . .
"Let we go" or "let we us go" = Early Modern English (the subject is "we") Cf Late Modern English's "let us go", in which the subject is "you" which is not written because it is already understood "Let's go" = Late Modern English (the subject is "we") Cf other West Germanic languages: Laat we (ons) gaan (Dutch); Lassen wir uns gehen (German)
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