Let’s is the English cohortative word, meaning “let us” in an exhortation of the group including the speaker to do something. Lets is the third person singular present tense form of the verb let meaning to permit or allow.

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2018年12月6日 · 'Let's do smth...' is a suggestion. According to Cambridge Dictionary: If we make a suggestion, it means that we mention a possible course of action to someone. There are a number of expressions which we can use to make suggestions.

Let's is a contraction of let us. It is technically an imperative construction, but usually indicates a suggestion rather than an order: 'Let us go to the ball.' 'Let's go shopping.' 'Let's talk about flowers.'

2016年2月23日 · Let me allow to express the subtle difference you are careful about, figuratively. In "Let's get started", the starting point is in view and "Let's get going", you are on the starting point already. Moreover, there is a sense of extra involvement abundantly made clear by the sentence, " Let's start going".

2015年7月8日 · Etymology of "let us" and "let's" (6 answers) Closed 9 years ago . We often learn the structure “Let’s do something”, but why it there an apostrophe- s after let and before the verb?

2016年1月12日 · In this case the plain form of the verb after let's would be regarded as the Head of the clause. This second dialect allows constructions where the noun phrases following let's function syntactically and semantically as the Subjects of the following clauses: Let's you me and Bob go and see the manager together. (grammatical in Dialect B)

2023年7月2日 · A scholarly assessment of 'let's not,' let's don't,' and 'don't let's' Anita Auer, "Let's not, let's don't, and don't let's in British and American English,"in Marianne Hundt, ed., Late Modern English Syntax (2014) offers a detailed discussion of these forms and their relative popularity over time. Only part of the article is visible in the ...

2019年11月27日 · Let's don't go there. This I find is a reference to the title and first line of a song by Jackyl (which is the information that you could helpfully have included in the question). It sounds wrong. The standard alternative to let's not is don't let's. So Let's don't is not the normal way of saying it. So you could say it is the incorrect one.

2016年12月8日 · The automatic affirmative answer that I would give is "Yes, let's." But in this case, the email conversation is a bit more formal, and I feel my go-to answer would be a bit too informal in the emails' context. (An alternative "Yes, please" that works for most "shall we" questions is also rather an unfitting reply in this case, I think.)