Difference between Let, Let's and Lets? [closed]

Many people use "let, let's and lets" in conversation

What's the difference between them?


The verb in each construction is let. It is usually used in the imperative mood: 'Let me go.' 'Let them eat cake.' 'Let him go without supper.'

However, it can also be used in the indicative: 'I let him go.' 'They let us eat cake.' 'We let him go without supper.'

Let's is a contraction of let us. It is technically an imperative construction, but usually indicates a suggestion rather than an order: 'Let us go to the ball.' 'Let's go shopping.' 'Let's talk about flowers.'

Lets is conjugated for the third-person singular present tense, which is to say that it is used with singular nouns and the pronouns he, she, it: 'He lets me eat cake.' 'She sometimes lets her brother use the Super Nintendo.' 'The country lets me feel freer than the city.'