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Qingqing Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

the use of"let

0I will not let my children 01u00be treated02u00 in that way. 02br
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00Can we say"00I will not let my children 01u00treated02u00 in that way"?02br
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00What about the passive voice"00The children 01u00is let to stay02u00 at home when his parents go to work"? Is it right? Thanks.0-
  

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02br 02br 01b 00From 05002b 02br 02br 01b 00let + object + infinitive 02b 02br 02br 00Like make, see and hear, let is followed by 01b 00object 02b 00+01b 00 bare infinitive02b 00. It cannot be followed by verb-ing:02br 01ul 02br 01li 01b 01i 00Let me carry02i 02b 01i 00 that box of papers for you. 02br 00Why don't you 01b 00let him walk home 02b 00by himself from school now?

— Nona the brit

  • 02br 02br 01b 00From 05002b 02br 02br 01b 00let + object + infinitive 02b 02br 02br 00Like make, see and hear, let is followed by 01b 00object 02b 00+01b 00 bare infinitive02b 00.
  • It cannot be followed by verb-ing:02br 01ul 02br 01li 01b 01i 00Let me carry02i 02b 01i 00 that box of papers for you.
  • 02br 00Why don't you 01b 00let him walk home 02b 00by himself from school now?
  • He's eleven years old after all 02i 02li 02ul 00Let is also frequently used in the expression 01b 00let's 02b 00(01b 00let us02b 00) to introduce a suggestion.
  • Note that negative sentences with let's can be formed in two possible ways:02br 01ul 02br 01li 01b 01i 00Let's finish02i 02b 01i 00 the video tomorrow, shall we?
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01) I will not let my children treated in that way - this is incorrect.02br
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002) I cannot think of a way to express this in the passive voice.02br
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01b00From 05002b02br
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00Like make, see and hear, let is followed by 01b0
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0 In the UK, people use 01i00don't let's 02i00or 01i00let's not 02i00in the negative. 0-
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01cite10Qingqing12cite10What about the passive voice"10The children 11u10is let to stay12u10 at home when his parents go to work"? Is it right? Thanks.12br
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10" let " is unusual in passive forms; we prefer " allow "12br
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10The children are allowed to stay at ho
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0How about either "the child is allowed to stay at home when his parents go to work" 01b00or02b00 "the children are allowed to stay at home when their parents go to work"? (Unless the parents are the parents of some unknow person, rather than of the child/children allowed to stay at home.)02br
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00Also - in the U.S., "let's not" would be much more c
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0It's not a myth. The standard of English is the U.S. is slipping on all levels. California, as reported by a radio talkshow commentary tw o weeks ago, scored the second poorest in SAT, next to the State of 00Mississippi which has the worst SAT scores in the nation. About half of the high school graduates in that State can not adequately comprehend reading materials nor write a decent essay;
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0It's not a myth. The standard of English is the U.S. is slipping on all levels. California, as reported by a radio talkshow commentary tw o weeks ago, scored the second poorest in SAT, next to the State of 00Mississippi which has the worst SAT scores in the nation. About half of the high school graduates in that State can not adequately comprehend reading materials nor write a decent essay;
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0I think overall, your argument seems to be very well laid out. 02br
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00Help me to understand how all the points you laid out previously are related to the final point you brought out that said "that's the reason American English gets 01u00bashed02u00." Though I feel emphathy for your sighing. 0-
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0The negative of 01i00let's 02i00is formed in three ways: 01i00let's not, 02i00which is widely used; 01i00don't let's, 02i00which is chiefly found in British English; and 01i00let's don't, 02i00which is an Americanism.01i00 02i02br
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0Hi, 02br
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00Thanks for your comments.00 00From browsing this website, I had come across a number of posters who 02br
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00perhaps were European English speakers, that sort of painted not so favorably of the American English because of how English is spoken and used nowadays in out lives, 00 00as well as in some of the American televi
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