Word Watch: Lay
Even highly literate writers are caught out by the interlocking permutations of the two verbs ‘to lay’ and ‘to lie’.
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Even highly literate writers are caught out by the interlocking permutations of the two verbs ‘to lay’ and ‘to lie’.
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