{"id":439,"date":"2014-01-05T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/lie-vs-lay\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:17:29","slug":"lie-vs-lay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/lie-vs-lay\/","title":{"rendered":"Lie vs Lay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sit and rise have I’s–and lie does too.
“Coz these are things that I, all by myself, can do.
Set, raise, and lay are words that you choose
When each one has an object after it to use.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Here we are at the end of our Wacky Word pair\u2014lie and lay.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Remember these lie and lay tips:<\/span><\/div>\n
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  1. Lie has an I\u2014and I alone can do it (it is not done TO something else).<\/span><\/li>\n
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    1. I lie in bed at <\/span>
    2. Yesterday I lay awake half the night.<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Before that I had lain down when the cat jumped on me.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Lie means to stretch out in a flat position\u2014anybody or anything can lie, as long as it does it by itself (i.e. it is NOT laid)<\/span><\/li>\n
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        1. She lies down with a headache every day.<\/span><\/li>\n
        2. The sun is lying low.<\/span><\/li>\n
        3. She has lain down for a nap.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. Lay must have an object following it\u2014something that it is being laid down.<\/span><\/li>\n
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            1. Lay your book on the table.<\/span><\/li>\n
            2. He laid his money down.<\/span><\/li>\n
            3. She has laid the towels in the sun.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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              Okay\u2026the tenses for the three:<\/span><\/div>\n
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              1. Lie<\/span><\/div>\n
                          a. Base form: lie\u2014Tomorrow I will lie down early. (Remember\u2014no object; down is an adverb; early is an adverb here, not an object.<\/span><\/div>\n
                          b. Past simple: lay\u2014Yesterday I lay in the sun. (Tricky part: past tense of lie is lay; lay is also the present tense of lay\u2014to lay something down!)<\/span><\/div>\n
                          b. Past participle: lain\u2014They have lain low ever since then.<\/span><\/div>\n
                          d. Third person singular: lies\u2014The dog just lies under the tree all day long.<\/span><\/div>\n
                          e. Present participle\/gerund: lying\u2014The sun was lying on the horizon for so long today.<\/span><\/div>\n
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              2. Lay<\/span><\/div>\n
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                  1. Base form: lay\u2014I lay the kids\u2019 clothes out every day. (Tricky: lay is the base form of lay (to put something down; it is also the past tense of lie\u2014to stretch out by yourself or itself.)<\/span><\/li>\n
                  2. Past simple: laid\u2014Yesterday I laid the pink pants out for Jon.<\/span><\/li>\n
                  3. Past participle: laid\u2014Before the dog came in, I had already laid his bones out.<\/span><\/li>\n
                  4. Third person singular: lays\u2014He lays the book down every night at ten.<\/span><\/li>\n
                  5. Present participle\/gerund: laying\u2014I am laying the swim suits out to dry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ol>\n
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                    Tricky Tricks to Help It Stick<\/span><\/div>\n
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                    1. Again, do sit\/set first (all same base word for tenses of set!) or rise\/raise (since many people get this pair correct even if they do not know sit\/set and lie\/lay very well).<\/span><\/li>\n
                    2. Do rise\/raise after sit\/set or sit\/set after rise\/raise (saving lie\/lay for last).<\/span><\/li>\n
                    3. Memorize acronym\/rhyme to cement the fact that all three with I\u2019s are the ones that are done by someone or something (not to something).<\/span><\/li>\n
                    4. When you get to lie and lay, to lie first all by itself until it is memorized. Then do lay. (I am starting to wait a week between the two with lots of practice on lie during that week before moving on to lay.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                      I\u2019m officially done with sit\/set; rise\/raise; and lie\/lay! Time to move on. I feel that I have risen to the occasion and am glad that I did not sit idly by and lay these tricky ones aside. Glad I did not let people lie in agony over these Wacky Words. I would like for all of us to set our grammar burdens aside and raise a toast in honor of sit\/set; rise\/raise; and lie\/lay! <\/span>J<\/span> (Last time for a while, honest!)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                      Sit and rise have I’s–and lie does too.“Coz these are things that I, all by myself, can do.Set, raise, and lay are words that you chooseWhen each one has an object after it to use. Here we are at the end of our Wacky Word pair\u2014lie and lay. Remember these lie and lay tips: Lie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,628,640,82,632,183],"tags":[133,132,131],"yoast_head":"\nLie vs Lay - Character Ink<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/lie-vs-lay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lie vs Lay - Character Ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sit and rise have I’s–and lie does too.“Coz these are things that I, all by myself, can do.Set, raise, and lay are words that you chooseWhen each one has an object after it to use. 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