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Feel free to use the following mnemonic device to help you remember: To lay is to get laid and laid. (This is meant in the stuffiest grammatical sense and in no way implies the kind of smut a Santa Monica police officer might read into it.) To lie, then, works as follows. Today I lie on the beach. Yesterday I lay on the beach. At times, I have lain on the beach. None of those acts puts me in any danger of being arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior. But that’s only because I conjugated the verb correctly. I

June Casagrande

Feel free to use the following mnemonic device to help you remember: To lay is to get laid and laid. (This is meant in the stuffiest grammatical sense and in no way implies the kind of smut a Santa Monica police officer might read into it.) To lie, then, works as follows. Today I lie on the beach. Yesterday I lay on the beach. At times, I have lain on the beach. None of those acts puts me in any danger of being arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior. But that’s only because I conjugated the verb correctly. I

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About June Casagrande

June Casagrande (born 1966) is an American writer who specializes in English grammar and language usage. She writes a syndicated column on language called "A Word Please", and is the author of five books; her 2018 The Joy of Syntax was described as "a succinct and mercifully lucid summing-up of the basics" of grammar by copy editor John McIntyre.