contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months agoA cool guide pay attention to your grammari.redd.itexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up166arrow-down1external-linkA cool guide pay attention to your grammari.redd.itcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareParaneopteralinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months 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