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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Syntactic function of " Let's "

Let’s look for a key.
Look for - is a predicate.
A key - is an object.
But what about "let us" ? What part of the sentence is it?
  

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Anonymous Let’s look for a key. But what about "let us" ? What part of the sentence is it?

  • Anonymous Let’s look for a key.
  • But what about "let us" ?
  • What part of the sentence is it?
  • "Let's look for a key" is the predicate in the Let’s look for a key .
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Anonymous Let’s look for a key. Look for - is a predicate.A key - is an object.But what about "let us" ? What part of the sentence is it?
"Let's look for a key" is the predicate in the Let’s look for a key.
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Then what type of predicate is it?
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AnonymousBut what about "let us" ? What part of the sentence is it?
"Let's" is a special expression that makes a first person plural imperative (we).

Look for a key is second person singular or plural. (you)
Let's look for a key is first person plural. (we)

As such 'let' is the first verb of the sentence

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