{"id":72365,"date":"2019-09-22T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72365"},"modified":"2019-09-22T10:38:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:38:51","slug":"lay-vs-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/lay-vs-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Lay vs. Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\"><b>Lay <\/b>means <i>put down something carefully<\/i> or <i>put down something flat<\/i>. It always takes an object.<\/p>\n<p>She <b>laid <\/b>the books on the table.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lay <\/b>is a regular verb. Its forms are:<\/p>\n<p>Infinitive: to lay<br \/>\nPresent Participle: laying<br \/>\nPast: laid<br \/>\nPast participle: laid<br \/>\nPresent singular: lays<\/p>\n<h3>Lie<\/h3>\n<p><b>Lie <\/b>means <i>be down<\/i> or <i>be placed flat on a surface<\/i>. It is an irregular verb. Its forms are:<\/p>\n<p>Infinitive: to lie<br \/>\nPresent Participle: lying<br \/>\nPast: lay<br \/>\nPast participle: lain (formal)<br \/>\nPresent singular: lies<\/p>\n<p>She <b>was lying <\/b>on the sofa.<\/p>\n<p>A book <b>lay <\/b>open on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t <b>lie <\/b>in the bed all day.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a regular verb <b>lie<\/b>. It means <i>say something that is not true<\/i>. Its forms are:<\/p>\n<p>Infinitive: to lie<br \/>\nPresent Participle: lying<br \/>\nPast: lied<br \/>\nPast Participle: lied<br \/>\nPresent singular: lies<\/p>\n<p>He <b>lied <\/b>about his age in order to get into the army.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lay means put down something carefully or put down something flat. It always takes an object. She laid the books on the table. Lay is a regular verb. Its forms are: Infinitive: to lay&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1581,1580,1582],"class_list":["post-72365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-lay","tag-lie","tag-lie-vs-lay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72366,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72365\/revisions\/72366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}