LET - Basic Verbs - Learn English Grammar

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“Let us” is a salad ingredient.
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Ah!
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Lettuce.
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Hi, everybody, my name is Alisha.
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Welcome back to Know Your Verbs.
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In this episode, we're going to talk about the verb “let.”
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Lets go.
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The basic definition of the verb, “let” is to allow or to permit something.
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So, allow or permit the conjugations of this verb present tense, “let,” “let's.”
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Past tense, “let,” past participle tense, “let,” progressive tense, “letting.”
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Now, let's talk about some additional meanings of the verb, “let.”
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The first additional meaning of this verb for this lesson is to allow to enter or leave
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a situation.
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So, let's look at some examples.
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“Please let us in, it's cold.”
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When talking to a police officer, for example, the police might say, “I'll let you go with
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a warning.
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I'll let you go.”
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So, in the first example, “Please let us in, please let us in.”
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means please allow us to enter.
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It's cold outside so allow us to enter a building.
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In the second example, the police officer says, “I'll let you go with a warning.”
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“I'll let you go with the warning,” means “I'll allow you to leave but I'll give you
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a warning, not a ticket.”
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So, to allow to enter or to leave something.
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The next additional meaning for this lesson is used as an imperative.
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So, imperative in it's like to propose something or to request something.
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So, for example, “Let us see.”
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Or, “Let us consider these options.”
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Here, I'm not using the contracted, “let's see,” or “let's consider,” it sounds
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more formal to use, “let us see” or “let us consider” but these are very common ways
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to like to make a request or to make a proposal to a group of people like, “Let's see.”
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“Let's see what he does.”
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It's like, “This is my proposal, I request we see something,” “I request we consider
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something,” “Let us see,” “Let us consider these options.”
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The next additional meaning comes from British English.
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We do not use this in American English but “to let” can mean to rent a room.
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So, again we do not use this in American English but this is common in British English.
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“To let” in a sentence.
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“He let a room to a young woman from another city.”
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Another one, “I'm letting a room from a wealthy couple.”
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Let's talk about some variations of the verb, “let.”
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First one, “to let go.”
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Actually, there are a few meanings of “to let go.”
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I'll talk about two of them here.
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One means, to dismiss someone from a job.
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“To dismiss someone” means to fire someone from their job, from their employment.
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Examples.
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“Management decided to let half of us go this month.”
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So, “Let half of us go.”
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“Half of us” means half of the employees go.
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So, let go is split by the people affected by the verb.
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So, “Management decided to let half of us go this month.”
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Okay, another example.
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“I'm sorry but we have to let you go.”
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Again, the phrasal verb” let go” is separated by the person affected by the action, “let
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you go.”
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In other words, “I'm sorry we have to fire you,” “I'm sorry we have to dismiss you
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from your employment.”
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Okay, so “to let go” is another expression to mean, to remove someone from their job.
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It's a nicer way to say, “You're fired!”
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To let someone go.
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To go on to the second meaning of “to let go,” we use this quite broadly to mean “to
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relax” or “to release something.”
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So, it can mean to release stress, for example.
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In a sentence, “Try to let go of your stress.”
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♪ Let it go ♪ Oh, God.
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[unintelligible 0:04:51].
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Okay.
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Another example, “Let go of me!”
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So, you can use this if someone is holding you for some reason.
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So, “Let go of me,” means release me, “Let go of me! or, “Let go of her!”
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“Let go of him,” means release her, release him.
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This is similar to the next variation of “let” which is “let out.”
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“To let out,” we use the word, “let out” to free something, to release something,
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usually though, something has been confined, something has been kept.
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An example of this is “Let me out of this room.”
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So, “let” and “out” are separated by “me” so I am the person affected here
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I am asking to be released from the room.
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“Let me out of this room.”
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Another example, “She let out a terrifying scream.”
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So, maybe inside her, there was this frightened emotion she felt scared so she released that
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emotion with a scream.
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So, “She let out a terrifying scream.”
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It was freed from her body.
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The next variation is, “to let someone have it.”
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To let someone have it so this means like to attack someone either physically or verbally.
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Verbally means attacking someone with words, to have an argument.
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So, physically or verbally attack someone.
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In a sentence, “My boss let me have it this morning.
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I made a huge mistake this week.”
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So, in this sentence my boss let me have it, probably means my boss shouted at me.
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So, my boss attacked me verbally and there's a very low chance that someone's boss will
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physically attack them at work?
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I don't know what it's like in your company, but in our company, it's probably not that
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meaning.
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So, in most cases, like, “My mother let me have it.
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I totally wrecked the car,” for example.
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It's like I was attacked verbally by someone.
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So, “My boss let me have it this morning.
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I made a mistake.”
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So, in another example sentence, “Did you see that fight? the smaller guy really let
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the bigger guy have it.”
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So, here, I said, “The smaller guy really let the bigger guy have it.”
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So, again in this example, the person affected by the action, the person receiving the attack,
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in this case, the bigger guy is the one who is inserted into the verb phrase.
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So, “The smaller guy really let the bigger guy have it.”
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So, the bigger guy was the one who was attacked in this case.
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So, to let someone have it means to attack someone with words or with physical force.
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I hope that helped you learn a little bit more about the verb, “let.”
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If you have any questions, if you know some other meanings, if you have some other variations
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you want to mention please feel free to leave them in the comments along with any questions
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you might have.
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