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Jackson6612 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Used as an auxiliary to express a warning

3 let
transitive verb
1 : to cause to : make <let me know>
2 a chiefly British : to offer or grant for rent or lease <let rooms>
b : to assign especially after bids <let a contract>

3 a : to give opportunity to or fail to prevent <live and let live> <a break in the clouds let us see the summit> <let the opportunity slip>
b -used in the imperative to introduce a request or proposal <let us pray>
c -used as an auxiliary to express a warning <let him try>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]

What is that "auxiliary"? An auxiliary verb? The sentences in red are also the same, grammatically. Please help me with it.
  

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Hi, Maybe you need another dictionary, Jackson. Don't forget that the important thing is to know how to use the word, not to know what it is called. Clive

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Hi,



Maybe you need another dictionary, Jackson. Emotion: big smile



Don't forget that the important thing is
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Now I have been using M-W's Collegiate Dictionary regularly for several years (Occasionally, I also use American Heritage which, like M-W's Col., is also based on original Webster's dictionary) and it's my judgement it's difficult in terms of how it explain the senses. It's my knowledge that it is still quite popular in the US. Is that really true and what is your opinion about M-W? Which regular
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Hi,



I don't really have any good advice to offer you about dictionaries. I like my Canadian Oxforsd Paperback Dictionary (I won it in a contest
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Okay, Clive, thanks a lot, anyway. Could you please suggest me any books or offer advice to improve written English? I don't get much time to write things in English. The only writing I do is here on the Forums.
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Read. Read read read read read read read.
Keep a journal.

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