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Ah yes - the age old question. Is it Lay or Lie? Learn more about it in this SAT writing video on the Treasury's Beginnings.
Transcript
- 00:03
All right writing shmoop er's We're in the last leg
- 00:06
of this marathon here We got eleven more and we're
- 00:09
going to be reading all about this stuff The treasury's
- 00:12
beginnings Go see the stage play hamilton if you really
- 00:16
think about it all right let's See we're going to
Full Transcript
- 00:19
skim the perpetrator was laying drink some of that Thanks
- 00:21
for thinking of me talking like that And neither was
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their attainable basis interpretation and bring us all that we
- 00:25
have a little fun doesn't Committee five comprised of anyone
- 00:28
coming and going places domination But if you're looking for
- 00:29
telling them that we were never the last song with
- 00:32
your sweet thing all right so we've skimmed it's like
- 00:35
what we do every time here Let's go Look at
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the first one here was lean Sounds like a competitor
- 00:41
to the spanx underwear brand there Maybe Maybe All right
- 00:45
Well let's see to get this one right You have
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to know that lay in lye are actually two different
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words We can lay something down and we can lay
- 00:54
an egg which we do here on these videos all
- 00:56
the time But we ourselves can lay down We can
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Only lie down And if you're in eric clapton fan
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think about the song lay down sally The past participle
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of tu les which is laid is required here So
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we go back and re read the sentence here The
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ground work for the department of the treasury was laid
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during the turmoil of the american revolution yada yada right
- 01:20
that sounds a whole lot better Well like cleaner So
- 01:22
yeah the answer is c was laid And then well
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you know we go to the loserville around here the
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groundwork for the treasury was never lying down So it
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would be that is it's not a subject with the
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agency to lie down it's an object that someone else
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lays down the past participles of lye and layer similar
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but they mean different things so it's important to steer
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clear of lane which is while the past participle of
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to lie that's the case no matter the tents of
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the sense including the past perfect adlene Yeah and they
- 01:51
just made up all these complexities to mess with you
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that's the british didn't even for you know our independence
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