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Hey, I'm not native speaker in English. I'm curious why sentence 'you will be lying here all day' is incorrect. I drew boy and lying girl on the pillow, and boy said to her ''you will be lying here all day''(cuz boy knew it will be like that, she's always very lazy). Why in this situation this sentence is wrong?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Anonymous I'm curious why sentence 'you will be lying here all day' is incorrect.

Who told you it was incorrect?

See the "Usage note" here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lay
I have copied it below:
Lay and lie are often confused.
Lay is most commonly a transitive verb and takes an object.
Its forms are regular. If “place” or “put” can be substituted in a sentence, a form of lay is called for: Lay the folders on the desk. The mason is laying brick. She laid the baby in the crib.
Lay also has many intransitive senses, among them “to lay eggs” ( The hens have stopped laying), and it forms many phrasal verbs, such as lay off “to dismiss (from employment)” or “to stop annoying or teasing” and lay over “to make a stop.”

Lie, with the overall senses “to be in a horizontal position, recline” and “to rest, remain, be situated, etc.,” is intransitive and takes no object. Its forms are irregular; its past tense form is identical with the present tense or infinitive form of lay : Lie down, children. Abandoned cars were lying along the road. The dog lay in the shade and watched the kittens play. The folders have lain on the desk since yesterday.

In all but the most careful, formal speech, forms of lay are commonly heard in senses normally associated with lie. In edited written English such uses of lay are rare and are usually considered nonstandard: Lay down, children. The dog laid in the shade. Abandoned cars were laying along the road. The folders have laid on the desk since yesterday.

Anonymous · Answer

Thank you very much. I think I don't have problem with words. I'm curious why "you will be lying all day'' is not correct as a sentence? Cuz my friend told my today that it's incorrect and my grammar is totally wrong. I was thinking all the time that I wrote it good in Future Continous but and he told me that's not even this time <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/3.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/3.gif' alt='Emotion: surprise'/>. Is he right or not?? "You will be lying all day'' is incorrect as a sentence? Or maybe it doesn't fit to situation which l wrote earlier? Or maybe I really can't build sentece like this in F. Continous?

CalifJim · Answer

Anonymousyou will be lying all day

Your original version was You will be lying here all day.

You will be lying all day suggests somewhat that you will be telling lies (untruths) all day. ('lie' has two meanings.)

By adding 'here' or 'down' you make it sound more like 'reclining', which is what you want. Use one of these:

You will be lying here all day.
You will be lying down all day.
You will be lying down here all day.

CJ

Anonymous · Answer

I'm sorry I replied from my mobile phone and forgot about 'here' of course it was you will be lying here all day so it's mean that sentence is good and my friend was wrong ^ ^''' it's correct then...thank you very much!!

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Anonymous I drew boy and lying girl on the pillow, and boy said to her you will be lying here all day

I drew a boy and a girl lying on a pillow, and the boy said to her, ''You will be lying here all day."
The boy knew it would be like that, because she's always very lazy.
Those sentences are correct.

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