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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Lay, lie, at, in??
Do you say "I LIE awake in the midnight hour" or "I LAY awake in the midnight hour" and do you say AT midnight hour or IN or...neither?
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I say "at midnight". I lie awake at midnight. ) I lay awake at midnight.
- I say "at midnight".
- I lie awake at midnight.
- ) I lay awake at midnight.
- ) CJ
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I say "at midnight".
I lie awake at midnight. (This happens every night or at least regularly.)
I lay awake at midnight. (This happened on some night in the past.)
CJ
I lie awake at midnight. (This happens every night or at least regularly.)
I lay awake at midnight. (This happened on some night in the past.)
CJ
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Anonymous"I LIE awake in the midnight hourEither you're writing in first person present tense or you always are awake at midnight.
AnonymousI LAY awake in the midnight hourThat is the simple past tense.
Anonymousdo you say AT midnight hour or IN"In the midnight hour", but that is rather
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