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This is great!

I am sure lots of people will make use of this! smile
Quote by DanielleX
As a story verifier, this is one of the commonest problems I come across and often find myself correcting, rather than sending back. Below is a quick guide to how these verbs should be used.

To Lie:

Present tense: I lie down on my bed when I'm feeling sleepy.
Past tense: Yesterday, I lay there thinking about what to cook for tea.
Past participle: I had lain there all afternoon, just waiting for her come home.
Present participle: Lying there, thinking of my girlfriend, my hand crept inside my panties.

To Lay:

Present tense: As I walk past, I lay my dildo on the bed.
Past tense: As I walked past, I laid my dildo on the bed.
Past participle: I had laid my dildo on the bed for the last time that week.
Present participle: Laying the dildo on my bed, I could only dream of my girlfriend's return.

Please note: Layed is not an English word.

Hope people find this useful

Danny



Wow...what a story!! And thanks for the reminder from English classes. Good job!!

Rick
Thanks for the refresher, DX. The way you do it sounds much more educated and refined than my usual fall-backs of: I put down... I got down... and assorted varieties of the same grammar dodge.

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Lie/Lay seems to be one of the hardest things in English to grok for some reason. It's one of the most common things that I have to pause and think about when I'm writing or proofing. Seems like it should be simple, esp. for those of us who've been writing in English for years, but for some reason it isn't.

Nice summary, DanielleX, and love the sexy examples.

And please tell me that you don't really get people using "layed". That's just ... wrong. Everyone knows that it's spelled "layd".


I found this video explains things pretty well.