PSA: lie and lay and laid
(by request from drakin)
Lie is something you do yourself. (That's intransitive, bitches!)
ex: The dead mouse lies on the ground.
ex: Fwed lies in the windowsill.
Lay is something you do to other things. (Transitive! Yay!)
ex: Alice lays the dead mouse on the ground.
ex: Fwed lays himself down in the sun.
Do you see what I did there? Even though Fwed is kinda doing it himself in that last one, grammatically he's doing it to himself, so it's transitive, so you use lay.
Here's where it gets weird:
Lay is the past tense of lie.
ex: Fwed lay in the windowsill.
Laid is the past tense of lay.
ex: Fwed laid himself down in the sun.
How's that sound, drakin?
Lie is something you do yourself. (That's intransitive, bitches!)
ex: The dead mouse lies on the ground.
ex: Fwed lies in the windowsill.
Lay is something you do to other things. (Transitive! Yay!)
ex: Alice lays the dead mouse on the ground.
ex: Fwed lays himself down in the sun.
Do you see what I did there? Even though Fwed is kinda doing it himself in that last one, grammatically he's doing it to himself, so it's transitive, so you use lay.
Here's where it gets weird:
Lay is the past tense of lie.
ex: Fwed lay in the windowsill.
Laid is the past tense of lay.
ex: Fwed laid himself down in the sun.
How's that sound, drakin?