To whom it may concern

[gnomi]

In regards the use and misuse of certain words:

To lie: intransitive verb. Does not take an object.

Today I lie.

Yesterday I lay.

I have lain.


To lay: transitive verb. Takes an object.

Today the chicken lays an egg.

Yesterday the chicken laid an egg.

The chicken has laid many eggs.


Please make a note of it.

Comments

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

And...

You lay a book on the table, but you lie down in bed.

And you get laid. ;-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeedy. :-)

And "He laid his head down on the pillow."

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

Yes, that, too.

Look at me with the comma abuse. ;-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heee! I probably would've gone with a semicolon after the "Yes," just for kicks: "Yes; that, too."

Oy, I'm such a punctuation geek.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

Or a Period? "Yes. That, too."

But the comma abuse was deliberate, just to give you hives. ;-)