Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Grammar tip: Lay vs. lie


In the present tense, lay requires something to be done to...you lay a book on the table, you lay your keys on the shelf, etc. ... Lie is something that does it itself...the book lies on the table, the keys lie on the shelf. A quick tip: If it can do something INDEPENDENTLY, it takes the I word (lie). Here's a photo with another quick tip:

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