At five AM I sit with my "dover" coffee (Warm Dover, get it?) and contemplate the correct grammar for the next statement.
1. I have laid awake all night. INCORRECT
2. I have lain awake all night MY PREFERENCE
3. I have lay awake all night. INCORRECT
4. I have lied awake all night.INCORRECT
5. I laid awake all night INCORRECT
6. I lain awake all night. INCORRECT
7. I lay awake all night OKAY
8. I lied awake all night. TELLING FIBS?
Go back and use your cursor to find the one I consider correct.
Anyway as I (laid,lied,lay) awake, that grammar problem kept going over and over in my mind. Alas. Next time I'll try counting sheep.
8 comments:
I got it right!
Krissy :)
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I chose what you did Chuck. So how could it be wrong LOL. Helen
Oh hell Chuck, I was up all night also!
Good Morning Chuck I agree with you. Sorry to hear you had a bad night for the first time in weeks I slept like a log I suppose that will be it now for another month or so. Hope you have a better night tonight. Love Joan.
I chose the same answer you did. Still, lay and lie and the difference always screwed me up. I like what the grammar technicians say about it in Writers Digest. It is such a silly matter that the day will come when it will be obsolete.
Jude
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I prefer the simple past over the participle - unless you say it while still lying in bed. - Karen
It may be the difference in our browsers but I can't get mind to work here.
Not with your quizzes and not with this. I'll never know if I was correct or not.
I lay is simple but I'd probably say I have lain.
Your preference was mine. Are we correct? LOL
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