Re: Lie/Lay
To add to the fun: "To lie" (to make an untrue statement) is a weak verb (forms the past tense by adding -ed), and doesn't take a direct object. Its present participle is "lying."
"To lay" is even more fun.
To beat down with force (Sir Reginald began to lay about him.)
To bury (Sir Reginald was laid in the churchyard.)
To copulate with (Sir Reginald got laid in the churchyard.)
To set in position (Sir Reginald laid the table.)
To put on a surface (Sir Reginald laid plaster.)
To place an immaterial thing (Sir Reginald laid stress on grammar.)
Sir Reginald also laid rope, laid plans, laid taxes, laid a bet, and laid his Aunt's ruffled feelings. Meanwhile, Sir Reginald's hen laid an egg.
That's a whole lot of laying going on.
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Hang/ hung:
"To hang" means "to suspend from above."
As a strong verb,
hang changes its form in the past to become [/i]hung[/i]. As a weak verb, used of people in terms of exection, it adds -ed to become
hanged. "She hung the picture," vice "Fred was hanged." On the other hand, Sadie hung onto the rope all night.
Hang on the Bell, Nellie
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"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care/ In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there."
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A Visit from St. Nicholas
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"'Shoot and be damned you rogue' said he/ 'And you'll be hanged and you'll be hanged for murdering me'."
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Sovay
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"I'll be hanged!" Sir Reginald exclaimed, when he saw the wallpaper Lady Anne had hung in the parlor.