Hi, There,
Which reply is best fit in ?
1) -Let's go home,shall we/will you?
2) -Let us go home, shall we/will you?
If possible, tell me why please.
Thanks .
Hi Lexiphile,How about this, Thomas:
"Bill, you're interferring! Let us get on with our work, will you?"
"Ah, we're finished at last. Let's go home, shall we?"
Admittedly, in both cases, the "n'est-ce pas" (or is it the "innit") on the end is purely retorical, but it is often heard.
let's
let's /lets/
the short form of 'let us', used especially to make suggestions
Let's go!
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SUGGESTIONS
Use let's to make a suggestion about something you and someone else could do together. Let's ... is a fairly firm way to suggest something, and is usually used when you think the other person will agree : Let's go somewhere different tonight! | Let's start by introducing ourselves.
Hi Lexiphile,
Of course if let us go home means allow us to go home (2nd person plural imperative), then will you? is fine. In this case, of course, it has to be let us and cannot be let's.
Perhaps naively, I assumed that nobody was keeping them captive, and I took the original post to be asking about let us go home - 1st person plural imperative ('Come on now; I want to go home, don't you think we all should').
I've got what you mean. But you were trying to explain the sentence in reference to pragmatics, while Lexiphile and fatbaby were concerining theirselves about its semantic meaning.
Hi Yang,
You may well be right, but you are going to have to explain yourself a little more, because I've no idea what you mean. What is this distinction you are drawing between pragmatics and semantic meaning?
I don't think there's much point in addressing this question unless each poster is clear about the context:Let us go home, will you? we can use this(will you) right?
also in theory we can use /won't you/can you/could you/can't you as a tag question for Let us go home but It is not natural
SirI don't think there's much point in addressing this question unless each poster is clear about the context:
Let us go home - We've been out on this walk for long enough; we should return, it's getting cold, etc.
Let us go home - Please unlock the door to this prison cell and allow us to return to our friends and families.
Most of the natives initially assumed we were considering the first context.