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- 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
- 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
- Origin of the beatings will continue until morale improves
What is the origin of the phrase the beatings will continue until morale improves? There is a Metafilter and a Quora out on it, but they are inconclusive, and the phrase does not appear in the
- infinitives - Passive of verb let : with or without to - English . . .
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 Comp
- 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
- word order - Is it Dont lets or Lets dont? - English Language . . .
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 perfectly acceptable English
- meaning - Difference between Let, Lets and Lets? - English Language . . .
Many people use "let, let's and lets" in conversation What's the difference between them?
- apostrophe - Etymology of let us and lets - English Language . . .
The verb let means “allow”, “permit”, “not prevent or forbid”, “pass, go or come” and it's used with an object and the bare infinitive Are you going to let me drive or not? Don't let h
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