A few days ago
Dani Marie

For all you grammer people out there…I need help with past tense?

I have a quick question. What is the correct way to write the word “lays” in past tense?

For example, He went into the room and laid/lay/lied down on his bed.

Which is the correct way to write it? Or is it none of them? If you could let me know, that’d be great!

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A few days ago
Benito S

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he went into his room and laid down on his bed. it doenst mean it will work for all of the sentences. theres more of 1 past tense you know. theres simple past, past proggresive, present perfect simple, and the list goes on.
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A few days ago
Dealz ©
The correct way to write it out is

ex: He went into the room, and laid down on his bed.

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A few days ago
StephenWeinstein
If you are talking about a person making himself horizontal without having sex, then the word “lays” is not the correct word. The correct word is lie or lies in the present tense and lied in the past tense.

If you are using “lay” to mean “have sex with” or to mean putting something else (generally not oneself, except in the special case of the poem line “now I lay me down to sleep”) down, to laying in wait, or certain other meanings, then laid is the past tense.

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A few days ago
Su-Nami
He went into the room and LAID down on his bed. I am pretty sure this is correct.

Hope this is of some help.

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A few days ago
Anonymous
He went into the room and laid/lay/lied down on his bed.

He went into the room and lied down on his bed.

Laid = Placing an object somewhere

Lay = Placing an object again.

Lied = Human placing his or herself on something.

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A few days ago
NinaFromNewEngland
Present : He is going to lay down on his bed.

Past : He went in and laid down on his bed.

activities.macmillanmh.com/reading/treasures/html/56_Troublesome_word_pairs.pdf –

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A few days ago
inflight_static
Ah this always confuses me too..

Lie means to lie down. (I want to lie down on the couch.) The past tense of lie is lay.

Lay means to lay something down. (Please lay the eggs on the table gently.) The past tense of lay is laid.

There’s more about it on this website… http://web.ku.edu/~edit/lie.html

Therefore, the answer to your question is: The corecct way to say it is “He went into the room and lay down on his bed.”

Hope i could help!

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A few days ago
dvanessam
He laid down on the bed.

Come lie down by me.

Get a dictionary/thesaurus.

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A few days ago
beautiful~brunette
he laid down on his bed

thats the one that sounds most right…

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A few days ago
Exipnei
laid
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