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  1. verbs - "Let's" 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 …

  2. The phrase "let alone" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    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 …

  3. phrases - Let's get started! or let's get going? - English Language ...

    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 …

  4. "Let alone" phrase - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    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 …

  5. meaning - Difference between Let, Let's and Lets? - English …

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

  6. phrase requests - Other words to replace "let's"? - English …

    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 …

  7. Let ... then ... in mathematical definition - English Language

    Oct 10, 2021 · That would require a semicolon, since Let x be a set is a sentence and requires a full stop like a semicolon or a period. You could specify several in a row with commas, like the …

  8. The passive with "let" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    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 …

  9. If any concerns let us know "or" If “there are” any concerns

    Dec 6, 2017 · Thanks @tyleman1209, If we use "If any concerns let us know" informal speech (and especially emails) is this still a major concern?

  10. word order - Is it "Don't let's" or "Let's don't"? - English Language ...

    Jan 12, 2016 · Don't let's forget the 1943 Noel Coward song "Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans". If we un-contract, it becomes "Do not let us be beastly to the Germans" which is …