XI Международная студенческая научная конференция Студенческий научный форум - 2019

“To lay” means “to place, to put”. It is a transitive verb and therefore it can be used in the passive as well as in the active voice. If can transfer its action to an object. That’s why it can be used both in the active and passive voice.

“To lie” “means to” “recline”. At is an in transfer verb: if cannot transfer if action to an object, and if can be used only in the active voice.

It is difficult for some speakers of English to use these two verbs correctly. Let’s take these verbs apart and put them together again. And their proper use is easy to understand.

Like all other verbs, “lay” and “lie” have different forms to express different tensed for their actions.

Present: I lay

I am laying

Past: I laid

I have laid

Examples: John lays a carpet

John is laying a carpet

John laid a carpet

John has laid a carpet

And the intransitive verb “to lie” has the following basic fours:

Present: I lie

I am lying

Past: I lay

I have lain

Examples: The cat lies on the carpet

The cat is lying on the carpet

The cat lay on the carpet

The cat has lain on the carpet

The baby lay in the crib. They laid the book on the table. We have laid down our burdens. There in another verb that remembers the above. This verb is to lie meaning to tell an untruth. The construction of the verb, however, should give you no trouble.

The prisoner lies (is lying, lied, has lied)

The habit lying on every occasion may sometimes follow a man into the grave. Such was the case of a certain lawyer, whose tombstone bore the following inscription: there lies an attorney John Russel. He lies still

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