contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 month agoA cool guide pay attention to your grammari.redd.itimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up165arrow-down1imageA cool guide pay attention to your grammari.redd.itcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareParaneoptera@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoIt should be “after King Arthur had laid his sword down, he lay in the tall grass, resting” since “lain” is the intransitive participial form and “laid” is the transitive participial form. If he’s doing it to a sword he needs the transitive.
It should be “after King Arthur had laid his sword down, he lay in the tall grass, resting” since “lain” is the intransitive participial form and “laid” is the transitive participial form. If he’s doing it to a sword he needs the transitive.
Ah right, thanks