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Snarf Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Lain

How do you use the word "lain," as in the past participle of "lie," in a sentence?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lain?s=t

I don't want to confuse it with "laid." Can you say, "I can see the soil was lain on the ground outside"?
  

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Hi Your sentence sounds OK to me. Here is another one. She has lain there without speaking a word any one since she got the result this morning.

— Vsuresh

  • Hi Your sentence sounds OK to me.
  • Here is another one.
  • She has lain there without speaking a word any one since she got the result this morning.
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Hi
Your sentence sounds OK to me.
Here is another one.
She has lain there without speaking a word any one since she got the result this morning.
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Hi!

Thanks. How about this way of using it for a line in a piece of poetry?

I see through grain her eyes of lain...
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Hi
I'm afraid I don't know if it can be used this way.
But what I have learnt about poetry in general is poets can use words in an unconventional way, which we call poetic licence.
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Well, there's a line that follows it that I probably should have shown you. And there was a typo there; it should have been "have" not "of," sorry:

I see through grain her eyes have lain...
In the longing of my pores.
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