Re: [OM] Sad tumble

[Chris Barker]

That’s easy: it lies down.  "lay" is a transitive verb taking a direct object, 
such as “lay the table” etc . . . whereas “lie” is intransitive.

I’ve waited sooo long for someone to bring up that subject again :-)

Chris

> On 4 Aug 20, at 11:16, olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> It's kind of like proper word usage in a sentence. Does the dog lie
> down or lay down? If I can't figure it out then the dog is sleeping.

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