Get Your Grammar Fix(ed): Lie vs. Lay

Grammar Fix is coming up, but we’ve got a winner to announce first! Here we go, you guys! THANK YOU for commenting and following our blog. Keep it up, keep it up! As promised, I put all of our followers/commenters into the random number generator. Boyfriend-Who-Is-My-Husband selected our lucky winner.

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It’s April Newell, everyone!

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On to today’s lesson! And I’m down to 45 seconds.

 

Lie vs Lay:

There are two wholly different verbs confusing us here. (This doesn’t have anything to do with fibbing, by the way. That’s a third verb, and we’re not interested in it today.)

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About Bethany Kaczmarek

Author. Fan of Story. Family girl. EO nerd. Transplanted missionary. Indie music connoisseur. Grammar ninja.

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