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Hi,

I was taught not to use let in the passive, so I would write 'I was allowed to go.'

Wait for the natives.

Hi,

'Let go' can be used with various meanings.

'Let me go' can be said if someone is physically holding you.

Thus, 'I was let go as soon as I complained', alhough this sounds a bit awkward.

'I was let go' is commonly said, particularly at this time of recession.

It's a nicer way of saying 'I was fired'.

No 'to'.

The phrase 'I'll

Do you want the sentence to mean that you were permitted to go somewhere? If so, Tanit is correct.

Or do you mean the common US usage referring to being dismissed from employment? In which case it's "I was let go" (I think. But I'm not American

This is not a good example. I'll explain why later. In the meantime, let's take He let me drive the car.

There is really no good passive for these. I was let drive the car and I was let to drive the car are both unacceptable. Change let to allowed to.

He let me drive the car.
(He allowed me to drive the car.)

I

Thank you all! I didn't know about "to be let go" meaning "to be fired".
That would be sort of an exception to the rule, right?

PS: Coloraday, I told you you'd better wait for the natives, didn't I?

I didn't mean to use it idiomatically .Noticing not being of any to in the first sentence,I just wanted to know if the sentence in the passive form has to or not.
Let ask it in another way.
He made me sell the shop.
I was made sell the shop.
I was made to sell the shop.
Here made doesn't mean prepared just passive form of the first sentence. 
Thanks

Hi,

Let ask it in another way.

He made me sell the shop.

I was made sell the shop. I wouldn't say this is wrong, but it sounds literary, almost archaic, and very unusual.



I was made to sell the shop. Ths is the normal modern form.



Clive

coloradayLet ask it in another way.
He made me sell the shop.
I was made sell the shop.
I was made to sell the shop.

Very interesting question. My "native-speaker instinct", it turns out, is different from Clive's.

I'd say that I was made sell the shop is just plain ungrammatical and that I was made to sell th