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Tag: Word Usage

Posted on April 9, 2015August 20, 2020

Lay/Laid and Lie/Lain

I made up this dialogue quip to keep them straight. "Lay the object down now." "I laid the object down yesterday." "I have laid the object down every day." "Don't lie." "I'm going to lie down now." "I lay down last night." "I have lain many times." Even though fictional stories are most often written in …

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