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(25,862 posts)Lay is a transitive verb, meaning it takes a direct object.
You lay down your fork. You lie on your bed.
One way to remember is that lay means to put or to place. Lie means to rest or recline.
ananda
(28,866 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Only 80 times a day.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)I could be wrong and will double check later.
Jim__
(14,077 posts)From The New York Times:
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)But the past tense is lain in state, not lied in state
https://history.house.gov/Institution/Lie-In-State/Lie-In-State-Honor/
Irregardless, trump will never get that honor.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)It's "regardless." https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Irregardless
brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)But I aint no English major. I are an engineer. LOL.
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)July
(4,750 posts)"Lain" is the past participle.
It's lie/lay/lain for the verb "to lie, meaning "to recline" (see a good dictionary for its other meanings).
He lies in state in Washington (present).
He lay in state for two days (past).
He has lain in state while citizens paid their respects (past participle).
It's lay/laid/laid for the verb "to lay," meaning most often "to place," though it has many meanings.
She lays one napkin on each plate (present).
We laid placemats at each seat (past).
We have laid silverware at each place (past participle).
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Its lie in state.
malaise
(269,059 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)"Lay" is transitive. "Lie" is intransitive.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)Trust me, it's lie in state.
When I become dictator of North America people will be forced to learn the difference between those two and use them correctly at all times.
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)It was worth it.
malaise
(269,059 posts)lie still
realmirage
(2,117 posts)ADX
(1,622 posts)...I don't see how he'll be denied that honor, even though I don't believe he deserves it.
Protocol is protocol.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,737 posts)No way. By then maybe hell only be able to afford a paupers grave.
Heres hoping justice is done.
Coventina
(27,121 posts)Ernesto
(5,077 posts)how will we know where to piss?
Coventina
(27,121 posts)then we can all take turns relieving ourselves....
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I'm thinking of something else entirely.
sandensea
(21,639 posts)As he does constantly and at every turn.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)That no one will want to he near the casket.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)sweeping unobstructed through the rotunda with the cold marble statues standing around him being his only sentinels. His older children will all be in prison and Melania will have her jacket saying she doesnt really care.
Maybe Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be there, desperately trying to be relevant again.
Itll be a sad.
Cyrano
(15,041 posts)And you can bet that the crowd coming to pay their final respects will be huuuge. The largest procession in the history of the universe.
IADEMO2004
(5,555 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)That huge inaugural crowd can turn out to pay their respects.
Runningdawg
(4,520 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)and he'll bill the taxpayers for the full cost of real gold. The tomb will have to include armed guards to prevent people from vandalizing it. A number of mysterious women in mourning veils will step up to the grave, lift their skirts and piss on it.
That is how a demi-demon deserves to be remembered.
And it should be small to accommodate the bigly crowds.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)In the Kremlin.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Imagine if this happened to the Rump...
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And he is probably still smarter than Trump.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)How do they manage this? Or have they replaced his body with a wax figure?
I just don't get why they do it.
Mike Nelson
(9,959 posts)
I think he will lie anywhere.
Initech
(100,081 posts)ooky
(8,924 posts)Feed the whales.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)ooky
(8,924 posts)for the least amount of visitors and shortest waiting time
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)..............
brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)And they best build some security around his grave to minimize the amount of human feces on his tombstone.