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Vic_bubble  +  951133 Sat, 24 Oct 09 03:11 AM
I know how to use "let" but sometime I see "let's". Can everybody help me out? Thanks
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Yankee  +  951141 Sat, 24 Oct 09 03:19 AM
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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Avangi  +  951144 Sat, 24 Oct 09 03:22 AM
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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Clive  +  951145 Sat, 24 Oct 09 03:25 AM
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 and the person or persons he is talking to should go to Paris.  

eg Let's have fish for dinner.

eg Let's go to the movies.

eg Let''s get married.

 

It can also follow the suggestion. eg

Tom: Mary, I think we should get married.

Mary: Oh, Tom, let's!

 

It can also be used in the negative.

eg Let's not go to the movies.

 

Best wishes. Clive
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