lie/lay
What is the difference between lie and lay?
Lie means “to rest or recline.” It does not take an object. Lay always takes an object.
- Rover loves to lie in the sun.
- We always lay some bones next to him.
Extra Examples:
- I can't lie to him.
- Zeb was also escorted to a room--so grand and beautiful that he almost feared to sit in the chairs or lie upon the bed, lest he might dim their splendor.
- Jennifer didn't lie about her father.
- You'd better lie down, said the countess.
- One afternoon noticing Natasha shivering with fever, Princess Mary took her to her own room and made her lie down on the bed.
- What lay at the end of that path?
- She lay down, hugging it.
- Later as she lay awake beside him, listening to the sound of his breathing, it occurred to her that they had fallen into the pattern of making up by making love.
- He lay with his head propped high on the pillows.
- While you lay there choking.