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Worksheet 2: Lay vs. Lie
Review some commonly confused words with your middle schoolers. With this two-page activity, they review lay and lie. With each sentence provided, they must choose which one of the target words would best complete the sentence. Then,...
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Using Irregular Verbs: Lay and Lie
In these irregular verbs worksheets, learners learn to select the correct form of lay or lie. Students read the sentences and select the correct verb form of lay or lie to complete each sentence.
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Lay vs. Lie Quiz
In this online interactive grammar learning exercise, students answer 10 multiple choice questions regarding the use of lay and lie. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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"Lay and Lie" Exercise
In this online grammar instructional activity, students read the sentences and fill the blanks with the words laid, lain, or lied. Students complete 14 exercises.
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Grammar Worksheet: Lie vs. Lay
To do something to someone or something or not to do something to someone. That is the question. And it is the source of the confusion between lie and lay. The strength of this worksheet is in the clear, cogent explanation for the...
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Lay/Lie
In this lay or lie instructional activity, students choose the correct word to complete the sentences. Students choose lay or lie to complete 18 sentences.
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Lie & Lay
When do you use "lie," and when do you use "lay"? Use this activity in your ESL class to find the difference. Ten questions provide sentences with blanks for English learners to complete with the two verbs, often in different tenses. The...
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Grammar Practice: Lie vs. Lay
Are your pupils caught in the lie/lay confusion? Give them extra practice with a worksheet that defines the difference in meaning, conjugates the words, and gives examples of how the two verbs are used. Learners then practice with 10...
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Misused Verbs: Lie/Lay
In this misused verbs worksheet, students insert the words lie or lay into the sentences. Students complete 10 sentences total on this worksheet.
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That Troublesome Pair
For this grammar worksheet, students write lie or lay in each of the 12 sentences in order to make the sentence complete. Students are also asked to define lie and lay.
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Past Tense, Present Perfect, Past Perfect
Support grammar instruction with a worksheet that focuses on verb tenses. With two exercises, multiple choice and fill in the blank, class members identify correct tenses in order to show understanding of proper sentence...
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Troublesome Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students underline the correct verb in twenty sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Troublesome Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students underline the correct verb in twenty sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Identifying the Principle Parts of Irregular Verbs
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students write the correct form of irregular verbs. Students identify the principle parts of given verbs. Students answer forty fill in the blank questions.
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Verbs Rule!
Students practice writing and speaking using conventional grammar, usage, and sentence structure. Students practice as a whole class and then demonstrate their knowledge in written activities. Handouts and worksheets are imbedded within...
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Irregular Verb Forms
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students write the past and participle verb forms for each word. Students complete this task for 25 words total.
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Troublesome Word Pairs
Students examine how to know the difference between the words in the troublesome word pairs and identify the words in sentences. They then write their own sentences using the correct word from the word pairs.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 6: Using Lay and Lie Correctly
Read about the proper usage of lay and lie and then practice by correctly completing twenty sentences. Feedback is provided after each sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Rules for Using Lay and Lie Correctly
This interactive exercise tests your knowledge of the irregular verbs "lay" and "lie." A review chart is provided and explanations are given for each answer.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Lie and Lay
Learn the difference between "lie" and "lay" in this tutorial. You'll also find out about transitive and intransitive verbs, so you'll be able to think through which form of "lie" or "lay" to use. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: The Proper Use of "Lay" and "Lie"
Check this brief explanation of how to tell the difference between lay, a transitive verb, and lie an intransitive verb, and use them properly in English grammar.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: To Lie / to Lay and to Sit / to Set
Twelve sentences with blanks where the verbs should be. Students choose the correct verb form of lie, lay, sit, or set to fill in the blank and complete the sentence. When all sentences have been completed, students can submit their...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Irregular Verbs
Here is a list of common irregular verbs showing the present, preterit, and past participle. Includes charts for rise vs. raise, sit vs. set, lie vs. lay, which will help prevent misusing these verbs.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Lie or Lay and Sit or Set
This instructional activity focuses on the correct usage of the words Lie or Lay and Sit or Set and an easy mnemonic technique to help them remember when to use each.