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HUBLOT Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Drop off / let off



(From the book titled http://www.amazon.com/Love-Becomes-Her-Kimani-Romance/dp/1583147748)

Could you drop me off in front of my building?

Is it okay to say "let" instead of drop?
  

Top answer

Not in my parlance.

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Not in my parlance.
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Thanks a lot, GPY.

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HUBLOTI'm wondering if the usage above is common in American English but not in British English.
For me, "let me off" works for a bus but not a car (I assume the original text is referring to a car).
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Oh, I see. Thanks a lot for the response, GPY.
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Common enough in 'proper' english. You get on a bus, you get off a bus. You get in a car. You get out of a car. Thinking transportation, I can only think of cars, vans and lorries that you get into. Everything else, you get on or off.
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Anonymous Common enough in 'proper' english. You get on a bus, you get off a bus. You get in a car. You get out of a car. Thinking transportation, I can only think of cars, vans and lorries that you get into. Everything else, you get on or off.
The question is about "let off", not those other phrases.
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