let
Base form
let
/let/
Past simple
let
/let/
Past participle
let
/let/
MeaningA1
to allow someone to do something
to let someone know
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1Will your parents let you go to the festival?
- Imperative · Form 1Let me carry that bag for you, it looks heavy.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday the teacher let us go home half an hour early.
- Past simple · Form 2Last summer my neighbours let me use their garden for my party.
- Present perfect · Form 3Dad has never let anyone else drive his car.
- Past perfect · Form 3Maria had let the soup boil for too long and it burnt.
Watch out
Let is followed by a verb without to: They let us to leave early → They let us leave early.
Same pattern
A — A — AAll three forms are the same
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