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. In the questioner’s examples, the sentence means to say “Product (allows/permits you to) do something awesome”, so the form with lets is correct.
Let's go out Let's have a party Let's see what happens Let's stand together in this emergency Let's not forget those who sacrificed their lives Questions I believe that let + us is the only instance where this type of contraction occurs.
Page 64 of the fourth edition of Practical English Usage reads Verbs which can be followed, in active structures, by object + infinitive without to, use to-infinitives in passive structures. Comp...
I notice that "let alone" is used in sentences that have a comma. The structure of the sentence is what comes before the comma is some kind of negative statement. Right after the comma is "let alon...
Let normally occurs with a clause of some sort as complement, and passive is unlikely with a clausal object: Bill wants me to come to the party would be passivized to *For me to come to the party is wanted by Bill, which is hardly an improvement. So let doesn't normally passivize.
Because Let us get started is an imperative statement, there is an implied subject. You let us get started This construction, with the implied subject, is a standard active voice construction. We can see how it would look in passive voice by swapping the subject and object: We are allowed to get started by you.
I find the distinction that MacMillan makes between not to mention and the supposedly synonymous let alone and still/much/even less useful: The phrases let alone and still/much/even less reinforce a negative or unlikely statement that precedes them. The still/much/even less constructs reinforce the negativity of the preceding phrase by subtraction -- Negative statement, still/much/even less ...
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".
