Thread: Lie or lay?
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Old Mar 06, 2017, 01:45 AM
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Originally Posted by TishaBuv View Post
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I want to lay down on the couch.
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I want to lie while laying down on the couch.
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These are confusing. Are these grammatically correct?

Lol....they are showing many other words that even mean something different but are the same word pronunciation. CONTEXT is seriously important.

I want to "lie"....while laying on the couch. The "lie" in this case means "to tell something that is untrue" & has nothing to do with laying anything down at all.

Pointing out that there are many words in english that have the same spelling & same pronunciation but mean something entirely different.....& yes, grammatically correct.
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