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Vic_bubble Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

When do we use let and let's?

I know how to use "let" but sometime I see "let's". Can everybody help me out? ThanksEmotion: zip it!
  

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Hi Vic_bubble Let's is a contraction of two words: let us . We generally use let's to make a suggestion: - Let's go swimming. = I suggest that we should go swimming.

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  • Hi Vic_bubble Let's is a contraction of two words: let us .
  • We generally use let's to make a suggestion: - Let's go swimming.
  • = I suggest that we should go swimming.
  • - Let's take a break.
  • = I suggest that we should take a break.
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Hi Vic_bubble

Let's is a contraction of two words: let us.

We generally use let's to make a suggestion:

- Let's go swimming. = I suggest that we should go swimming.

- Let's take a break. = I suggest that we should take a break.

- Let's invite them to dinner. = I suggest that we should invite them to dinner.
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Let me see if I can do this.
Let George do it.
Let us take a cab. = Let's take a cab.

"Let's" is a contraction for "let us."
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Hi,

I know how to use "let" but sometime I see "let's". Can everybody help me out?

OK, we'll just focus on let's.

Short for 'let us'.



It's used to urge, to make a strong suggestion or exhortation. By 'us', it refers to the speaker and the person or persons that this is said to.

eg Let's go to Paris. The speaker is suggesting that the speaker
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