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Lie / Lay - Exercise 2

Choose the correct word in each sentence below.  When you have finished, click on the "Check My Work" button to view the answers.

1.  He ( lies  lays) about twenty feet of new pipe each day.

2.  Pete is ( lying  laying) under that peach tree.

3.  The ball was ( lying  laying) on the forty-yard line.

4.  The mail carrier ( lay laid) the package on the doormat.

5.  Would you like to ( lie  lay) down before you eat lunch?

6.  We all wondered where the clerk had ( lay   laid) the receipt.

7.  Bill's bathing suit ( lay  laid) under the bed.  

8.  The lawyers ( lay  laid) the contracts aside for the time being.

9,  She got a sunburn from ( lying  laying) on the beach too long.

10. Barbara said that she had ( lain  laid) the book on a table.

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Margaret L. Benner
Director, Writing Support Program
English Department
Towson University
benner@towson.edu 

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