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Mon Jun 02, 2008 21:24 pm Expression: "Let one's students off"

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Saying "Let us leave" is a little different from saying "The teacher let us leave early today".

The key phrase is "let us leave", as is "let us out", and "dismissed the class", and "let us off" (notice the red highlighting in the thread question). Such phrases allow us to generate many sentences, where "let us leave half an hour early" does not. The adverbial is extra to that phrase.

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Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:10 am Expression: "Let one's students off"

. I simply didn't find it difficult to imagine how your initial post could be misunderstood. . _________________ Amy . ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

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Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:21 am Expression: "Let one's students off"

Molly wrote:
Tom wrote:
Many thanks, Amy

By the way, what is the normal way of saying this?

Tom

"Let us leave"?

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Molly wrote:

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nessie wrote:
"Let us leave"? It does not seem very... natural in this case...
Anyway, just my sense.

"The teacher let us leave early today." Why doesn't it sound natural?

Why did Nessie feel uncomfortable with that? Perhaps because "The teacher let us leave early today" is not what you initially wrote? (see the first quote).

Well, not really Amy, I just feel "let us leave" a bit strange because it sounds as if the teacher forced the student to stay everyday, and today he/ she let them leave early Rolling Eyes

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The teacher dismissed the class early

I found these in the OALD and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: (the entry of "dismiss")
OALD:
to send sb away or allow them to leave: At 12 o'clock the class was dismissed.

Longman Dictionary:
(formal) to tell someone that they are allowed to go, or are no longer needed
　The class will be dismissed early today.

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... something we never have again, I know... I guess I really really know.. Sad

Sorry seems to be the hardest word...

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Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:40 am Expression: "Let one's students off"

Yankee wrote:

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I simply didn't find it difficult to imagine how your initial post could be misunderstood. Wink

We can't predict everything in life, Amy.

Interesting?

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Well, not really Amy, I just feel "let us leave" a bit strange because it sounds as if the teacher forced the student to stay everyday, and today he/ she let them leave early.

Seems it was you who misunderstood.

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Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:44 am Expression: "Let one's students off"

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I found these in the OALD and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: (the entry of "dismiss")
OALD:
to send sb away or allow them to leave: At 12 o'clock the class was dismissed.

I still think "dismissed" would not be a common statement from schoolchildren.

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