ntran  +  33259 Tue, 15 Jun 04 06:46 AM All, Please correct/verify if I am using this sentence grammatically wrong. I wrote an email to all team members. The conclusion of the email ended with a command to tell everyone to win, "Lets win all games this week." Because there is a hidden subject, "everyone", the sentence is correct. "[Everyone] Lets win two games this week." A good friend told me the sentence should be "Let's win all games this week." I understand her point "let's" is a contraction of "let us". Thus, the sentence is "Let us win all games this week." Here are my questions: 1) Is there anything wrong with a sentence, "Lets win all games this week."? I found many criticisms using "lets" on the web. 2) If question 1 is correct, which is more appropriated to use in the context above? The way I understand these two sentences are different. ntran Joined on Tue, Jun 15 2004 New Member 03 Contractions

	taiwandave  +  33263 Tue, 15 Jun 04 07:31 AM Because "let" is a verb, it has no plural form. So there is no such word as "lets". It is always "let's", which you correctly noted is the contracted form of "let us". taiwandave Joined on Mon, Jun 7 2004 Taoyuan City, Taiwan Full Member 287 Verbs, Plurals

	ntran  +  33298 Tue, 15 Jun 04 02:58 PM Lets is a word. Check out http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=8&q=lets Lets is a singular form; it goes with singular subject. I thought this is a basic rule of subject and verb agreement. ntran Verbs

	Pemmican  +  33313 Tue, 15 Jun 04 05:14 PM I never heard of a verb "lets", ntran, your friend was right: The correct form here is "Let's" (the contraction of "let+us"), the imperative. The missing apostrophe in "lets" (wherever this occurs) is definitely either a typing mistake or it wasn't used just out of lazyness. Pemmican Joined on Thu, Aug 21 2003 Regular Member 569 Wâ mag ich mich nu vinden? wâ mac ich mich nu suochen, wâ? nu bin ich hie und bin ouch dâ und enbin doch weder dâ noch hie. wer wart ouch sus verirret ie? wer wart ie sus... Verbs, Contractions, Apostrophes

	Pemmican  +  33314 Tue, 15 Jun 04 05:19 PM Oh - I forgot: The form "lets" you refer to with your link, ntran, is the inflected form of the verb "let" for the 3rd person singular, present tense (a case of verb agreement, as you correctly noted): I let you let he, she, it "lets" E.g.: "I let him go" vs. "he lets him go". In the sentence you gave above, it is the imperative however where only the form "let's" (from let+us) is correct. Pemmican Verbs, Tenses, Present Tenses

	Radrook  +  33368 Wed, 16 Jun 04 05:19 AM To let means to "allow". Let him in. = Allow him to come in. The word "let's" means "let us" The first comes with the pronoun "us". The second does not come with the pronoun "us". She lets [allows] him to paint. = She allows him to paint. So the rule is that when you mean let us, or allow us, or permits us, you use let's. The following examples do not have the plural pronoun [us] contraction so no apostrophy is used. She lets me paint. = She allows me to paint. She lets them paint. = She allows them to paint. She lets him or her paint. She allows him or her to paint. Radrook Joined on Sun, Jun 13 2004 Junior Member 99 Plurals, Nouns, Pronouns, Contractions

	Marius Hancu  +  275468 Tue, 03 Oct 06 12:26 AM Let is a noun used in tennis scoring The plural is lets. -------------- let   Function:noun Inflected Form(s):-s Etymology:Middle English lette, lett, let, from letten to let (hinder) 1 : something that prevents or impedes : OBSTRUCTION <free to inquire without let or hindrance -- B.G.Gallagher> <the task of a socialist movement to challenge without let the moral values of society -- Lloyd Harrington> <perennials reseeding themselves without outside meddling help or let -- William Faulkner> 2 : a stroke, point, or service especially in racket and net games that does not count and must be replayed http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com ----------- Marius Hancu Joined on Wed, Apr 26 2006 Veteran Member 11,673 Plurals, Nouns