Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's easy to keep them straight if you remember that lay is transitive and lie is intransitive. > >>"Lie" and "lay" give me problems on occasion, and they shouldn't, as I >>have >>a working knowledge of Old and Middle English and of the Indo-European >>which came before. My mother and father never had a problem with them, >>and >>the difference is in the English teachers they had in school. >> >>Marc > > I find them misused in the newspaper almost daily. It's not that hard! > Lie means to rest or recline. Lay means to put or place. > Today I lie on the bed, yesterday I lay on the bed, I have lain on the bed > many times. > Today I lay the Leica on the table, yesterday I laid the Leica on the > table, I have laid the Leica on the table many times. > My mother used to tell me that you can't lay unless you are a chicken. > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >