{"id":18166,"date":"2020-04-28T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/?p=18166"},"modified":"2023-05-22T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:13:47","slug":"learn-english-phrases-let-me-go-let-me-be-lemme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/learn-english-phrases-let-me-go-let-me-be-lemme\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn English Phrases: Let me go! Let me be! Lemme&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/97WrSsY3grw?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a class=\"elementor-button rounded large blue\" style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/espressoenglish.lpages.co\/everyday-english-speaking-course\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Everyday English Speaking Course<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hi students! It&#8217;s Shayna from espressoenglish.net and I&#8217;m here today to answer another question from one of my students. Someone asked about the difference between the expressions <strong>let me go<\/strong> and <strong>let me be <\/strong>&#8211; when do we use each of these expressions, and how are they different?<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Let me go!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The phrase<strong> let go<\/strong> is used when you stop holding something with your hand. So if I&#8217;m holding this pen and I let go of it, it means I open my hand and I stop holding the pen. If I&#8217;m holding this whiteboard and I let go, that means I open my hand and I stop holding it.<\/p>\n<p>So if someone is holding you, for example, a robber or just someone you don&#8217;t want to touch you, and they&#8217;re holding you physically, then you would say, <strong>&#8220;Let me go!&#8221;<\/strong> which means stop holding me. Stop physically restraining me.<\/p>\n<p>You might also see &#8220;let me go&#8221; in movies when a criminal or a bad guy has taken someone captive and is holding them prisoner and the person who is being held prisoner might say, &#8220;Let me go.&#8221; It means release me physically or stop holding me. So let me go is physical.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Let me be!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Let me be<\/strong> is used when someone is bothering you or annoying you. So for example, let&#8217;s imagine I&#8217;m trying to study for a test, but my little brother keeps coming into the room and making jokes and asking me questions and making comments. I might tell him, &#8220;Hey, let me be,&#8221; which means, stop bothering me.<\/p>\n<p>Another phrase that is probably more common would be, &#8220;<strong>leave me alone.&#8221;<\/strong> That also means stop bothering me or annoying me.<\/p>\n<p>All right. So we have<strong> let me go,<\/strong> meaning to stop physically holding me, <strong>let me be,<\/strong> meaning stop bothering me or annoying me.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Let me&#8230; (Lemme)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>And we also use, &#8220;<strong>let me&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> in a couple other situations in English, for example, let&#8217;s say my friend is reading the newspaper and I want to check something in the newspaper. I might say, &#8220;Hey, let me see the newspaper for a minute.&#8221; That&#8217;s, let me see. Let me see the newspaper for a minute. In this case I&#8217;m using <strong>&#8220;let me&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> to ask for permission. So it&#8217;s almost like, &#8220;Please allow me to see the newspaper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, another way to ask would be, &#8220;Could I,&#8221; or &#8220;can I see the newspaper for a minute?&#8221; But when speaking informally, we often say, &#8220;Let me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And when speaking fast, we pronounce it like <em><strong>lemme<\/strong><\/em>. So my friend is reading the newspaper and I want to see the newspaper for just a moment. I would say, &#8220;Hey, <em><strong>lemme<\/strong> <\/em>see the newspaper for a second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That example was literally asking for permission, but actually we often use <strong>let me<\/strong> or when spoken fast, it sounds like <strong>lemme<\/strong>, when we&#8217;re just talking about something we are going to do. So in that case it&#8217;s similar to <strong>&#8220;I will.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, if my friend invites me to see a movie next Tuesday, I might say, <strong>&#8220;Let me check my schedule.&#8221;<\/strong> So I&#8217;m not asking permission for me to look at my own schedule. But I&#8217;m saying let me as a way to say I will. Usually, I will do this right now. So she calls me on the phone, she says, &#8220;Do you want to go to a movie next Tuesday?&#8221; And I say, &#8220;Ah, let me check my schedule.&#8221; That means I am going to check right now.<\/p>\n<p>Or let&#8217;s say that two English students are working together and reading a text and they find a word that they don&#8217;t know. So one of them might say, <strong>&#8220;Let me check the dictionary.&#8221;<\/strong> Not asking permission, but just saying, &#8220;I will check the dictionary right now or in the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These are a couple of different ways that we use the expression let me in English.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Let me go,<\/strong> for physical. I want you to physically stop restraining me.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Let me be,<\/strong> which means stop bothering me, stop being annoying or leave me alone is another way to say that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Let me<\/strong> or <strong><em>lemme<\/em> <\/strong>for either asking permission to do something like, &#8220;Let me see the newspaper for a second.&#8221; Or just I will do this thing immediately or in the near future. So, &#8220;Let me check my schedule to see if I&#8217;m available to go to the movies with you.&#8221; Or, &#8220;Let me check the dictionary. Let me look up this word.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that answers your question! In native spoken English, there are a lot of these little expressions which might be confusing to you because you&#8217;re not sure what the context is. A great way to learn some of those expressions is inside my courses.<\/p>\n<p>I have two courses that are specifically on <a href=\"https:\/\/espressoenglish.lpages.co\/everyday-english-speaking-course\/\"><strong>spoken English<\/strong><\/a>. And so you can learn English from conversations between two native speakers and learn these little expressions, these informal expressions that we use all the time. I&#8217;ll show you how they&#8217;re used in context and then I&#8217;ll explain them to you so that you can better understand conversations between native speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for joining me for today&#8217;s live lesson. I hope to see you inside one of my courses, and that&#8217;s all for now. 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