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Usage:
Little lone / Let Alone / Little Own
“I
don’t have a ladder to reach the top of the house, little lone
the top of the doorway.”
(Sorry,
this is WRONG in two areas.)
Let
Alone
“I
can’t remember the title of the book we were supposed to read,
let alone the details of the story.”
In
sentences like these you give a lesser example of something first,
followed by “let alone” and then the greater example. But
people often get this backwards, and put the greater example first.
The
same pattern is followed when the expression is “much less:”
“I
can’t change the oil in my car, much less tune the engine.”
The speaker can much less well tune the engine than he or she can
change the oil.
Another
common expression which follows the same pattern uses “never
mind,” as in “I can’t afford to build a tool shed,
never mind a new house.”
Little
own (improper usage; should be “let alone”)
When
Tom writes “I don’t even understand what you’re
saying, little own agree with it” he is misunderstanding the
standard phrase “let alone.” In the same context many
people would say “never mind.”
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