American Dream Girl Can't LIE Around and Listen to "Verbal Abuse."
Every writer has their pet peeve and mine is how to use the verbs lie and lay correctly. The quick trick is to say "to lay is to place" and to lie is "to recline." So it should be "I want to lie down to take a nap" and "I want to lay this napkin on the table." But here's a link to the latest "Writers Digest" discussion.
It should clear everything up. And ANYWAY there is no such word as "anyways." Ok that's it. Here's the link.
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I just checked out the link and definitely confusing. I will have to lie down to think about that one.
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