Here we rank by frequency the most common 2 part complex phrases. A search in iWeb for: _*21 _*22 1 OUT OF 6044503 II21 II22 = 2 part complex prepositional phrase Get out of here! listen 2 SUCH AS (II21 II22) 5449751 A search for collocates of ‘such as‘ in the COCA corpus: 1 ISSUES 3370 […]
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“Let’s + verb” in English is used to suggest a joint action, introduce a topic, propose hypothetical situations, acknowledge a fact, remind or emphasize a point, and transition to a new topic.
‘s firstly following proper noun as a possessive marker, or contracted ‘is‘. Then it could be ‘has‘ or the second part of a modal: ‘Let‘s go!’ 1 ‘S (GE) 36030994 genetive 2 ‘S (VBZ) 24517319 is 5 ‘S (VHZ) 1063909 has 7 ‘S (VM22) 864498 ‘let’s not’ is B2 If we look at large Ngrams
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In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 87 in the category of CLAUSES and related to imperatives is ‘let’s not’ + base form of a main verb to make a suggestion. 1 LET’S NOT FORGET 13135 1 LET’S NOT FORGET THAT THIS IS 65 The following are similar to saying “don’t forget to” but it
