1. Notes: 21 / 4 months ago  from didyoudrinkmygingerale (originally from andrewnonumbers)

   Lie/lay

   didyoudrinkmygingerale:

   andrewnonumbers:

   An easy way to pick which to use:

   Lay must take a direct object. Lie happens to yourself.

   You lay down all your college essays. Then, you lie in bed.

   It only gets confusing when you notice the past tense of ‘lie’ is ‘lay’.

   She laid down all her college essays. Then, she lay in bed.

   Got it?

   Another way you can pick which one to use is by using your gut instinct/native speaker intuition.

   Except.. it doesn’t work so well in this case (for me, at least) because ‘lie’ and ‘lay’ look and sound so similar.

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      Except.. it doesn’t work so well in this case (for me, at least) because ‘lie’ and ‘lay’ look and sound so similar.

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      Really useful, actually. ;)

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      by using your gut instinct/native speaker intuition.

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