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Dusklight Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
Lay and lie
Another of my confusions. Please help me with the usage of this one too.
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From OALD: "Some speakers confuse this sense of lay with lie, especially in the present and progressive tenses. However, lay has an object and lie does not: She was lying on the beach. She was laying on the beach .
- From OALD: "Some speakers confuse this sense of lay with lie, especially in the present and progressive tenses.
- However, lay has an object and lie does not: She was lying on the beach.
- She was laying on the beach .
- Why don’t you lie on the bed?
- Why don’t you lay on the bed?
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From OALD:
"Some speakers confuse this sense of lay with lie, especially in the present and progressive tenses. However, lay has an object and lie does not:
She was lying on the beach.She was laying on the beach.
Why don’t you lie on the bed?Why don’t you lay on the bed?
In the past tenses laid (from lay) is often wrongly used for
"Some speakers confuse this sense of lay with lie, especially in the present and progressive tenses. However, lay has an object and lie does not:
She was lying on the beach.
Why don’t you lie on the bed?
In the past tenses laid (from lay) is often wrongly used for
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TanitFrom OALD:
"Some speakers confuse this sense of lay with lie, especially in the present and progressive tenses. However, lay has an object and lie does not:
She was lying on the beach.She was laying on the beach.
Why don’t you lie on the bed?Why don’t you lay on the bed?
In the past tenses laid (from lay)
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Dusklight is lie/lay like raise/rise, one with a subject, the other without?I guess you mean "object", not "subject"
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