SAT Writing and Language Drill 8.1 Sentence Structure
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Ah yes - the age old question. Is it Lay or Lie? Learn more about it in this SAT writing video on the Treasury's Beginnings.
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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