Comments on: Lie vs. Lay https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/ GrammarBook.com Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.5 By: GrammarBook.com https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/#comment-1581121 Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:53:07 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=13#comment-1581121 In reply to McKenzie.

The usage chart in this post applies to humans, animals, and inanimate objects. Your sentence does not have a direct object; therefore, the present tense lie is correct. The volumes rest rather than “lie down.”

]]> By: McKenzie https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/#comment-1580732 Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:09:12 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=13#comment-1580732 “They lie, these volumes that have cost such weeks of hope and wasted love.”
The context before insinuates that “lie” in this text means to lie down. Is that grammatically correct? Can the volumes “lie”?

]]> By: GrammarBook.com https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/#comment-1564129 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:57:38 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=13#comment-1564129 In reply to Jae.

Yes.

]]> By: Jae https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/#comment-1563550 Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:24:31 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=13#comment-1563550 “A marker and pen lie on Mr. Smith’s desk.” – present tense
“A marker and pen lay on Mr. Smith’s desk.” – past (meaning the items may have been there yesterday, but not today. Correct?)

]]> By: GrammarBook.com https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/#comment-1447588 Mon, 08 Mar 2021 23:39:26 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=13#comment-1447588 In reply to Scott Godlew.

Since there is no object, lie is still correct.

]]> By: Scott Godlew https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/#comment-1447070 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 05:13:48 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=13#comment-1447070 The cat will purr as it approaches me, as if the sound itself were a bed where it could lay in my lap.

I saw an example structured like this and wondered if the word, could, causes lay to be correct instead of lie.

]]> By: GrammarBook.com https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/#comment-1435619 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:45:50 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=13#comment-1435619 In reply to Gilberto Nino.

There is no direct object in your sentence, and the sentence refers to an action that hasn’t yet happened; therefore, the sentence would apply the present-tense intransitive verb lie.

]]> By: Gilberto Nino https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/#comment-1434662 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:05:50 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=13#comment-1434662 “The end of the day before you lay down.”

How is this correct or wrong? If you may.

]]> By: GrammarBook.com https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/#comment-1428741 Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:03:52 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=13#comment-1428741 In reply to A.

As is indicated on the chart above, the past participle form for lay meaning “to put or place” is laid.

]]> By: A https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/no-lielay/#comment-1428315 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:11:20 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=13#comment-1428315 When was the linoleum (laid, lain)?

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