lets or let's

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new2grammar

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Let's strike a conversation

or

Lets strike a conversation

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Jasmeet Singh
 

5jj

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Let's strike up a conversation.

This strikes me as a rather unnatural utterance.
 

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Note that let's here means let us. The apostrophe replaces the missing u.

'He lets me drive' = 'he allows me to drive'. Nothing is missing from lets.

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Let's strike up a conversation.

As 5jj says, this doesn't sound natural by itself if it is one person asking to converse with the other. A native speaker is more likely to say something like "let's talk", "let's have a chat" or just start talking.
But this is ok: We had never been to this town before but my friend said, "Let's strike up a conversation with the first person we meet".

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