I iz not shure on dis queztion? What’s up with these questions lately Dan? Grammar policing again?
Lay, I believe.
Lay. Unless you’re telling falsehoods while being really close to the ground, it’s the first one.
Edit, I take that back, I said it allowed, and I changed my mind. That’s what I get for jumping to conclusions.
uhhhhhh
#2.
Once in junior high my English teacher miss corrected my grammar on an assignment. I proceeded to teach her about past participles and various forms of “lie” and “lay”. That year I also improved her vocabularly and taught her about verbals (just to name a few things). Haha
the second one
thats kind of tough.
2
lie. I think “lay” is past tense.
This is a reliable way to get grammar tips. heh. Or it’s another sad way to fish for more comments.
ahh… i should know this! i’ve had grammar so consistently the past six years that there is no way i’ve forgotten. but i have. i was never good with lay and lie.
EDIT, I take it back again, and google owns my soul. Google says lay!
How stupid am I? Very.
This is simple: It must be lie because I say lay
Lie. You lie down, and you lay down objects. Unless you’re speaking in the past tense, in which you say, “I was tired so I lay down to take a nap.”
Lie i think. I was given a big lecture in 7th grade from an 90 year old teacher, but i don’t remember the rule for which to use.
Dan, I am going to pick sentence # 2.
ACTUALLY
Google says lie is to recline, and lay is to set something down, so sorry, Zane, incorrect. ;]
Btw: after typing my answer I checked with Microsoft Word and the green squiggly line appeared with lay as an incorrect use of the word.
lie
lie, because you are doing it to yourself and to something else
Aw, spell check says it’s lie. Bummer. Unless spell check is “lying”. Haha, that was a bad pun.
lie… lay requires an object. Lie means to rest; recline.
how come you can say i lay myself down but not i lie myself down?
lie, yes. Lay is transitive.
(so, “I had to lay myself down” would be grammatical if you want to use “lay”)
I’ll have to ask The Trun on this one.
¡Número dos!
“Lie” is correct.
-Guru on the Hill
2
oh balls. i don’t know. i think it’s lie.
WAIT WAIT WAIT!
If you’re saying you’re tired AND [in addition to being tired] you have to lay down [the soft under plumage of birds as distinct from the contour feathers] then LAY would be correct. For matters of context I stick with lie.
ryc: thanks.
and I do believe it would be lay.
Chickens ‘lay’ people ‘lie’.
Lie.
The latter.
Lie. Unless you “lay yourself down.”
I’d say “lay”, but that’s just me.
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LIE down.
I hated this stuff in school
lie
That’s why I’m the copy editor or my newspaper!
it depends on if it was in the recent past or the far past but either could be correct
mmm actually i don’t know if that rule applies to english grammar though so if i had to choose i would go with 2
That was easy. Lay is past tense. If I had to do it and I did, as I did it would be present. I am doing this. I lie down. If I was tired, then I lay down? I would lay down? That is a better question.
Oh, I’m right back where I started.
Not to sound conceited, but spelling and grammar both come very easily to me, and lie/lay always confuses me. I have no educated guess. I’ll say it’s lie, because I would say lay out loud.
I want to say lay, but I know it’s lie. But I still think spellcheck is wrong.
I’m pretty sure it’s lie down.
lie
I was tired and had to lie down.
Lie.
it would be different if you had said, “She was tired, so she lay down.”
The first one, if you “lie”you are not telling the truth…
lie
if your commenters were the peanut gallery on ‘who wants to be a millionaire’ for 50/50, the contestant’d be screwed.
but i’m not a great speller =)
lie
I was tired, flopped on my bed, and passed out.
I believe that “I lay (me) down” is the correct past-tense.
I’m going to say lay.
There was a poster in my Pre-AP English teacher’s classroom that said, “Sleeping dogs never lie.”
So, I guess?
Lie, I b’lieve.
lie is correct!
Second one.
the second one.
I was tired and had to lie down.
If lay is past tense, then it should be lay because the sentence is past tense… But I don’t care, I let spell check handle that kind of thing.
the second one
the first one is grammatically used to refer to objects rather than self
Guess my grammar sucks, cause if I was constructing that sentence (both on paper and verbally) I would probably say “lay”. However, I think from popular vote it is “Lie”. Agh, now I’m confused!
And yes, I did get a nose piercing. Why do you ask? Are you going to make a topic about me or something? lol
How exactly is this an olympic sport?
BTW;
I want to LAY down.
I had to LIE down.
#2 all the way
the second one?
not enough people care about this kind of stuff anymore..
How about I’m tired and I need a beer, not gatorade!
i think its lie
you should post a link or tell us which is right
Daniel (doubledb)
The latter? Because to lie is the infinitive?
Yo no se.
I see a lot of people saying lay is past tense, but it’s not “I was tired so I lay down” (in which case lay would be correct, because it’s preterite), it’s “I was tired, so I had to lie down” which is … something else. You had … and then to lie is the infinitive.
Mmhm yeah.
I was tired and had to lie down.
“I was tired and had to lay down”. It’s past tense. Lay is past tense for lie (to recline). Present tense would be “I am tired and have to lie down”.
If I remember correctly, and I could very well be wrong as grammar was not my best subject… You lay a inanimate object down. Like a book.
Lie.
Number two is my guess Sir Dan.
lie
lie.
lay is what you do when you pick something up and set it down.
latter
I was tired and had to lie down. I think.
as far as i know of “lie down” is right.
Isn’t that the same? If I had to take one of those then the first, so probably the second is right! lol
i think the 2nd one
i guess depends on who “you ” are ; you lay things down; people lie down…hopefully do not lie as well
seedsower that was spot on. I was thinking the same type of thing.
I was tired and had to lie down. At least that’s what my mum tells me.
I do not know the proper use of leave and let as in “Let the dog out” or sit and set either as in “Set this on the table” .The rule I use is which ever one I usually say is wrong.
tired of lying I had to get up…
Oh, better watch out for Dan the grammar police sherif.
I think lie but to be honest if I was speaking it I probably would have said lay
The second one, “lie down”. I am fairly confident, but I will firmly smack myself in the head with a loud “DOH” if I got it wrong. At first look, this seemed really EASY. If I’m wrong… well, then that sucks.
The second one, “lie down”. I am fairly confident, but I will firmly smack myself in the head with a loud “DOH” if I got it wrong. At first look, this seemed really EASY. If I’m wrong… well, then that sucks.
lie.
Lay is an action you perform on another object.
i’d say lie down
lie.
It’s lie down.
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Lay1 and lie2 are often confused. Lay is most commonly a transitive verb and takes an object. Its forms are regular. If “place” or “put” can be substituted in a sentence, a form of lay is called for: Lay the folders on the desk. The mason is laying brick. She laid the baby in the crib. Lay also has many intransitive senses, among them “to lay eggs” (The hens have stopped laying), and it forms many phrasal verbs, such as lay off “to dismiss (from employment)” or “to stop annoying or teasing” and lay over “to make a stop.” Lie, with the overall senses “to be in a horizontal position, recline” and “to rest, remain, be situated, etc.,” is intransitive and takes no object. Its forms are irregular; its past tense form is identical with the present tense or infinitive form of lay: Lie down, children. Abandoned cars were lying along the road. The dog lay in the shade and watched the kittens play. The folders have lain on the desk since yesterday. In all but the most careful, formal speech, forms of lay are commonly heard in senses normally associated with lie. In edited written English such uses of lay are rare and are usually considered nonstandard: Lay down, children. The dog laid in the shade. Abandoned cars were laying along the road. The folders have laid on the desk since yesterday.
I’ll answer this question by referring to one of my favorite songs by Jack Johnson, “Girl I want to Lay You Down”
P.S. But I agree with everyone else that the second sentence is correct.
“Lie” is active (as in you’re doing it), and usually about people. “Lay” is passive (as in it’s being done by an outside source), and something you do to something, usually objects.
However, in the poem, “Now I lay me down to sleep,” Lay is correct because in this case, you are doing something to something else. And in this strange case, the something else is you. Maybe in this case, you would “lie” yourself down, but “lay” someone else on the table.
“I was tired and had to lie down.”
That one is correct because lie is the past tense of lay.
lie.
OK, the last one obviously. I do understand that the rules don’t mean much anymore with the advent of IMspeak and Textspeak, et al.
Second one.
Thinking about that made me tired. I’m going to lay down.
Second one.
Thinking about that made me tired. I’m going to lay down.
second one
I was tired and had to lie down.
the second one.
ACTUALLY
Google says lie is to recline, and lay is to set something down, so sorry, Zane, incorrect. ;]
^^ that is so true. i had to remember this rule for my ACTs… haha!
lie
Definitely lie, as to lay is to place an object and lie is something an object does.
Thinking about it, it could be either. If you were tired and had to rest, lie is correct. But if you are a sweatshop worker and had to stuff 300 more pillows by an hour and a half from now, even though you have already stuffed 1700 pillows, you have to lay down into the pillows. So which is it, are you in need of rest or do you have to make a few more pillows?
lie.
Lay1 and lie2 are often confused. Lay is most commonly a transitive verb and takes an object. Its forms are regular. If “place” or “put” can be substituted in a sentence, a form of lay is called for: Lay the folders on the desk. The mason is laying brick. She laid the baby in the crib. Lay also has many intransitive senses, among them “to lay eggs” (The hens have stopped laying), and it forms many phrasal verbs, such as lay off “to dismiss (from employment)” or “to stop annoying or teasing” and lay over “to make a stop.” Lie, with the overall senses “to be in a horizontal position, recline” and “to rest, remain, be situated, etc.,” is intransitive and takes no object. Its forms are irregular; its past tense form is identical with the present tense or infinitive form of lay: Lie down, children. Abandoned cars were lying along the road. The dog lay in the shade and watched the kittens play. The folders have lain on the desk since yesterday. In all but the most careful, formal speech, forms of lay are commonly heard in senses normally associated with lie. In edited written English such uses of lay are rare and are usually considered nonstandard: Lay down, children. The dog laid in the shade. Abandoned cars were laying along the road. The folders have laid on the desk since yesterday.
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Lie is correct, because it is intransitive. That means it doen’t require an object.
lay down
Lie.
I’d just say “I’m tired, time for me to chill in my crib”(lol, not)
It’s the first one. “Lay” is past tense, which is what you’re using. You said you HAD to lay down, which means you had to do it then, not now. Even though, in this case, “lie” and “lay” are the same word, you’re using past tense, so it would be “lay”.
There’s nothing wrong with a grammar lesson now and then!
#2
lie
“Lie. You lie down, and you lay down objects. Unless you’re speaking in the past tense, in which you say, ‘I was tired so I lay down to take a nap.’”
Correct. But no. Sorry. i “LAID” down
lie.
I lay things on the counter. I lie down when I am tired.
At least, I think that is correct. You could say I lay myself down, I believe.
lie
LIE!!!!
I’d say “lie”… I remember we had a brief lesson about “lay and lie” last year in Communication Arts, though I don’t quite recall the differences. However, “lay” would be present and “laid” would be past. The word “tired” in the sentence is past, therfore ”lay” would have to have the same rule applied, at least in this sense. I’m not really sure, but I’m sticking with “lie”.
2nd
Lie down. Lie is intransitive. Lay is transitive (I am laying the dishes on the table; I laid the dishes on the table yesterday). Lay is also the past tense of lie, so, “I lay down on the couch yesterday.”
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I’d say lie.
second one…
I iz not shure on dis queztion? What’s up with these questions lately Dan? Grammar policing again?
Lay, I believe.
Lay. Unless you’re telling falsehoods while being really close to the ground, it’s the first one.
Edit, I take that back, I said it allowed, and I changed my mind. That’s what I get for jumping to conclusions.
uhhhhhh
#2.
Once in junior high my English teacher miss corrected my grammar on an assignment. I proceeded to teach her about past participles and various forms of “lie” and “lay”. That year I also improved her vocabularly and taught her about verbals (just to name a few things). Haha
the second one
thats kind of tough.
2
lie. I think “lay” is past tense.
This is a reliable way to get grammar tips. heh. Or it’s another sad way to fish for more comments.
ahh… i should know this! i’ve had grammar so consistently the past six years that there is no way i’ve forgotten. but i have. i was never good with lay and lie.
EDIT, I take it back again, and google owns my soul. Google says lay!
How stupid am I? Very.
This is simple: It must be lie because I say lay
Lie. You lie down, and you lay down objects. Unless you’re speaking in the past tense, in which you say, “I was tired so I lay down to take a nap.”
Lie i think.
I was given a big lecture in 7th grade from an 90 year old teacher, but i don’t remember the rule for which to use.
Dan, I am going to pick sentence # 2.
ACTUALLY
Google says lie is to recline, and lay is to set something down, so sorry, Zane, incorrect. ;]
It is to lie? I trust google.
Perhaps this will help:
http://www.chompchomp.com/handouts/irregularrules02.pdf
I was tired and had to lie down.
I’d say lay, but I’m not 100% sure.
Btw: after typing my answer I checked with Microsoft Word and the green squiggly line appeared with lay as an incorrect use of the word.
lie
lie, because you are doing it to yourself and to something else
Aw, spell check says it’s lie. Bummer. Unless spell check is “lying”. Haha, that was a bad pun.
lie… lay requires an object. Lie means to rest; recline.
how come you can say i lay myself down but not i lie myself down?
lie, yes. Lay is transitive.
(so, “I had to lay myself down” would be grammatical if you want to use “lay”)
I’ll have to ask The Trun on this one.
¡Número dos!
“Lie” is correct.
-Guru on the Hill
2
oh balls. i don’t know. i think it’s lie.
WAIT WAIT WAIT!
If you’re saying you’re tired AND [in addition to being tired] you have to lay down [the soft under plumage of birds as distinct from the contour feathers] then LAY would be correct. For matters of context I stick with lie.
ryc: thanks.
and I do believe it would be lay.
Chickens ‘lay’ people ‘lie’.
Lie.
The latter.
Lie. Unless you “lay yourself down.”
I’d say “lay”, but that’s just me.
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LIE down.
I hated this stuff in school
lie
That’s why I’m the copy editor or my newspaper!
it depends on if it was in the recent past or the far past but either could be correct
mmm actually i don’t know if that rule applies to english grammar though so if i had to choose i would go with 2
That was easy. Lay is past tense. If I had to do it and I did, as I did it would be present. I am doing this. I lie down. If I was tired, then I lay down? I would lay down? That is a better question.
Oh, I’m right back where I started.
Not to sound conceited, but spelling and grammar both come very easily to me, and lie/lay always confuses me. I have no educated guess. I’ll say it’s lie, because I would say lay out loud.
I want to say lay, but I know it’s lie. But I still think spellcheck is wrong.
I’m pretty sure it’s lie down.
lie
I was tired and had to lie down.
Lie.
it would be different if you had said, “She was tired, so she lay down.”
The first one, if you “lie”you are not telling the truth…
lie
if your commenters were the peanut gallery on ‘who wants to be a millionaire’ for 50/50, the contestant’d be screwed.
but i’m not a great speller =)
lie
I was tired, flopped on my bed, and passed out.
I believe that “I lay (me) down” is the correct past-tense.
I’m going to say lay.
There was a poster in my Pre-AP English teacher’s classroom that said, “Sleeping dogs never lie.”
So, I guess?
Lie, I b’lieve.
lie is correct!
Second one.
the second one.
I was tired and had to lie down.
If lay is past tense, then it should be lay because the sentence is past tense… But I don’t care, I let spell check handle that kind of thing.
the second one
the first one is grammatically used to refer to objects rather than self
Guess my grammar sucks, cause if I was constructing that sentence (both on paper and verbally) I would probably say “lay”. However, I think from popular vote it is “Lie”. Agh, now I’m confused!
And yes, I did get a nose piercing. Why do you ask? Are you going to make a topic about me or something? lol
How exactly is this an olympic sport?
BTW;
I want to LAY down.
I had to LIE down.
#2 all the way
the second one?
not enough people care about this kind of stuff anymore..
How about I’m tired and I need a beer, not gatorade!
i think its lie
you should post a link or tell us which is right
Daniel (doubledb)
The latter? Because to lie is the infinitive?
Yo no se.
I see a lot of people saying lay is past tense, but it’s not “I was tired so I lay down” (in which case lay would be correct, because it’s preterite), it’s “I was tired, so I had to lie down” which is … something else. You had … and then to lie is the infinitive.
Mmhm yeah.
I was tired and had to lie down.
“I was tired and had to lay down”. It’s past tense. Lay is past tense for lie (to recline). Present tense would be “I am tired and have to lie down”.
If I remember correctly, and I could very well be wrong as grammar was not my best subject… You lay a inanimate object down. Like a book.
Lie.
Number two is my guess Sir Dan.
lie
lie.
lay is what you do when you pick something up and set it down.
latter
I was tired and had to lie down.
I think.
as far as i know of “lie down” is right.
Isn’t that the same? If I had to take one of those then the first, so probably the second is right! lol
i think the 2nd one
i guess depends on who “you ” are ; you lay things down; people lie down…hopefully do not lie as well
seedsower that was spot on. I was thinking the same type of thing.
I was tired and had to lie down. At least that’s what my mum tells me.
I do not know the proper use of leave and let as in “Let the dog out” or sit and set either as in “Set this on the table” .The rule I use is which ever one I usually say is wrong.
tired of lying I had to get up…
Oh, better watch out for Dan the grammar police sherif.
I think lie
but to be honest if I was speaking it I probably would have said lay
The second one, “lie down”. I am fairly confident, but I will firmly smack myself in the head with a loud “DOH” if I got it wrong. At first look, this seemed really EASY. If I’m wrong… well, then that sucks.
The second one, “lie down”. I am fairly confident, but I will firmly smack myself in the head with a loud “DOH” if I got it wrong. At first look, this seemed really EASY. If I’m wrong… well, then that sucks.
lie.
Lay is an action you perform on another object.
i’d say lie down
lie.
It’s lie down.
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Lay1 and lie2 are often confused. Lay is most commonly a transitive verb and takes an object. Its forms are regular. If “place” or “put” can be substituted in a sentence, a form of lay is called for: Lay the folders on the desk. The mason is laying brick. She laid the baby in the crib. Lay also has many intransitive senses, among them “to lay eggs” (The hens have stopped laying), and it forms many phrasal verbs, such as lay off “to dismiss (from employment)” or “to stop annoying or teasing” and lay over “to make a stop.”
Lie, with the overall senses “to be in a horizontal position, recline” and “to rest, remain, be situated, etc.,” is intransitive and takes no object. Its forms are irregular; its past tense form is identical with the present tense or infinitive form of lay: Lie down, children. Abandoned cars were lying along the road. The dog lay in the shade and watched the kittens play. The folders have lain on the desk since yesterday.
In all but the most careful, formal speech, forms of lay are commonly heard in senses normally associated with lie. In edited written English such uses of lay are rare and are usually considered nonstandard: Lay down, children. The dog laid in the shade. Abandoned cars were laying along the road. The folders have laid on the desk since yesterday.
I’ll answer this question by referring to one of my favorite songs by Jack Johnson, “Girl I want to Lay You Down”
P.S. But I agree with everyone else that the second sentence is correct.
“Lie” is active (as in you’re doing it), and usually about people. “Lay” is passive (as in it’s being done by an outside source), and something you do to something, usually objects.
However, in the poem, “Now I lay me down to sleep,” Lay is correct because in this case, you are doing something to something else. And in this strange case, the something else is you. Maybe in this case, you would “lie” yourself down, but “lay” someone else on the table.
“I was tired and had to lie down.”
That one is correct because lie is the past tense of lay.
lie.
OK, the last one obviously. I do understand that the rules don’t mean much anymore with the advent of IMspeak and Textspeak, et al.
Second one.
Thinking about that made me tired. I’m going to lay down.
Second one.
Thinking about that made me tired. I’m going to lay down.
second one
I was tired and had to lie down.
the second one.
ACTUALLY
Google says lie is to recline, and lay is to set something down, so sorry, Zane, incorrect. ;]
^^ that is so true. i had to remember this rule for my ACTs… haha!
lie
Definitely lie, as to lay is to place an object and lie is something an object does.
Thinking about it, it could be either. If you were tired and had to rest, lie is correct. But if you are a sweatshop worker and had to stuff 300 more pillows by an hour and a half from now, even though you have already stuffed 1700 pillows, you have to lay down into the pillows. So which is it, are you in need of rest or do you have to make a few more pillows?
lie.
Lay1 and lie2 are often confused. Lay is most commonly a transitive verb and takes an object. Its forms are regular. If “place” or “put” can be substituted in a sentence, a form of lay is called for: Lay the folders on the desk. The mason is laying brick. She laid the baby in the crib. Lay also has many intransitive senses, among them “to lay eggs” (The hens have stopped laying), and it forms many phrasal verbs, such as lay off “to dismiss (from employment)” or “to stop annoying or teasing” and lay over “to make a stop.”
Lie, with the overall senses “to be in a horizontal position, recline” and “to rest, remain, be situated, etc.,” is intransitive and takes no object. Its forms are irregular; its past tense form is identical with the present tense or infinitive form of lay: Lie down, children. Abandoned cars were lying along the road. The dog lay in the shade and watched the kittens play. The folders have lain on the desk since yesterday.
In all but the most careful, formal speech, forms of lay are commonly heard in senses normally associated with lie. In edited written English such uses of lay are rare and are usually considered nonstandard: Lay down, children. The dog laid in the shade. Abandoned cars were laying along the road. The folders have laid on the desk since yesterday.
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Lie is correct, because it is intransitive. That means it doen’t require an object.
lay down
Lie.
It’s the first one. “Lay” is past tense, which is what you’re using. You said you HAD to lay down, which means you had to do it then, not now. Even though, in this case, “lie” and “lay” are the same word, you’re using past tense, so it would be “lay”.
There’s nothing wrong with a grammar lesson now and then!
#2
lie
“Lie. You lie down, and you lay down objects. Unless you’re speaking in the past tense, in which you say, ‘I was tired so I lay down to take a nap.’”
Correct. But no. Sorry. i “LAID” down
lie.
I lay things on the counter.
I lie down when I am tired.
At least, I think that is correct.
You could say I lay myself down, I believe.
lie
LIE!!!!
I’d say “lie”… I remember we had a brief lesson about “lay and lie” last year in Communication Arts, though I don’t quite recall the differences. However, “lay” would be present and “laid” would be past. The word “tired” in the sentence is past, therfore ”lay” would have to have the same rule applied, at least in this sense. I’m not really sure, but I’m sticking with “lie”.
2nd
Lie down. Lie is intransitive. Lay is transitive (I am laying the dishes on the table; I laid the dishes on the table yesterday). Lay is also the past tense of lie, so, “I lay down on the couch yesterday.”
2nd one