SAT Writing and Language Drill 8.1 Sentence Structure

skim the perpetrator was laying drink some of that Thanks

for thinking of me talking like that And neither was

their attainable basis interpretation and bring us all that we

have a little fun doesn't Committee five comprised of anyone

coming and going places domination But if you're looking for

telling them that we were never the last song with

your sweet thing all right so we've skimmed it's like

what we do every time here Let's go Look at

the first one here was lean Sounds like a competitor

to the spanx underwear brand there Maybe Maybe All right

Well let's see to get this one right You have

to know that lay in lye are actually two different

words We can lay something down and we can lay

an egg which we do here on these videos all

the time But we ourselves can lay down We can

Only lie down And if you're in eric clapton fan

think about the song lay down sally The past participle

of tu les which is laid is required here So

we go back and re read the sentence here The

ground work for the department of the treasury was laid

during the turmoil of the american revolution yada yada right

that sounds a whole lot better Well like cleaner So

yeah the answer is c was laid And then well

you know we go to the loserville around here the

groundwork for the treasury was never lying down So it

would be that is it's not a subject with the

agency to lie down it's an object that someone else

lays down the past participles of lye and layer similar

but they mean different things so it's important to steer

clear of lane which is while the past participle of

to lie that's the case no matter the tents of

the sense including the past perfect adlene Yeah and they

just made up all these complexities to mess with you

that's the british didn't even for you know our independence