contentbotB to Cool GuidesEnglish · 1 month agoA cool guide pay attention to your grammari.redd.itimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up165arrow-down1imageA cool guide pay attention to your grammari.redd.itcontentbotB to Cool GuidesEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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