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Wed Nov-24-04 05:27 PM
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Explain when it is proper to use "bring" rather than "take".
I'll be back later.
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:29 PM
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Lydia Leftcoast
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:29 PM
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2. Question 2: Explain the difference between "lie down" and "lay down" |
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Now to answer your question:
"Bring" is carrying or accompanying something toward the speaker. "Take" is carrying or accmopanying something away from the speaker.
However, when the two verbs are often confused when the spatial relations are not clear.
Is that the answer you were looking for?
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:31 PM
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4. "lie" is intransitive, "lay" is transitive |
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I lie down. I lay my body down.
Or is it the other way around? "Ten thousand leagues beneath the ocean the land of Pepperland lay... or lie... I'm not too sure."
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:31 PM
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5. lie down is intransitive; lay down is transitive. |
jpgray
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:33 PM
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8. You're also from Minnesota |
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So perhaps you will get my "borrow" joke below. That's worth exactly one fifth of a gold Grammar star.
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:33 PM
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Lie is to recline. Lay is to place.
It gets really weird when you go to past tense. Past tense of lie is lay. As in: Last week I lay on the beach.
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:43 PM
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13. No, Lie is what Ken Lay did. eom. |
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Wed Nov-24-04 07:39 PM
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15. That too, but "lie" also means to recline |
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When you get yourself horizontal on your bed, you're "lying" there, not "laying" there, unless somebody's with you ;-) In which case, you're "laying" somebody else.
"Lay" needs a direct object, you see. As one writer said, "lay down" means spread goose feathers. You can "lay the baby down" for a nap, but you yourself "lie down" for a nap.
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:50 PM
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If you lie, you could be sleeping. If you lay, you're working (not counting sleeping at work).
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:29 PM
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Viewpoint: Arrival Bring me the marijuana, dad, and we'll smoke a bowlful.
Viewpoint: Departure Why did the police take all of my marijuana away?
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:31 PM
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6. LOL!...I was thinking something along that line... |
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:32 PM
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7. Because your answer involves marijuana |
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You get the jpgray Junior Grammar Achievers Award. It's not mine, so I'll just borrow it to you.
:P
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:36 PM
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11. I'd like to thank all the people who made this possible... |
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Edited on Wed Nov-24-04 05:38 PM by teach1st
...but I'm too high. And I think I split a damn infinitive.
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:34 PM
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Is Hypocrates some missing dialogue of Plato that everyone on DU seems to be talking about?
:dunce:
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Wed Nov-24-04 05:41 PM
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The boxes in which junkies store their needles.
There is always hope even when it seems very bad. Far from the southern vulcanic sirens comes the hope through the winds...
Don't try to talk, don't even try to move You are too weak to think, or try to pull it through We are the good ones, and we surely know the way To give you better words you could ever say
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