To lie or to lay?
Aren't these sentences wrong?
"Somebody shot her right in front of me," Laura said "She's laying on the floor. I think she was shot in the head or something."
He asked me what i'd done and I said, "All I did was move out of her way."
Einstein spoke. "That don't explain why she's laying on the floor."
To lay is a transitive verb meaning to place (put) something onto a surface.
But those examples were written by native speakers I found them as I searched laying on the floor on Google books.
I'm confused
Top answer
Native speakers get these wrong all the time, so you'll find a lot of examples of mistakes like this online. She's lying on the floor is the correct version. CJ
- Native speakers get these wrong all the time, so you'll find a lot of examples of mistakes like this online.
- She's lying on the floor is the correct version.
- CJ
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Native speakers get these wrong all the time, so you'll find a lot of examples of mistakes like this online.
She's lying on the floor is the correct version.
CJ
0You are right.
Unfortunately, even well-educated native speakers make this mistake all the time.
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