Is this the right tense for lay?

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The play's set was completely painted, but Jennifer laid the freshly-painted board face down on the floor.

Yes. It's the past tense of the regular transitive causative verb lay. You can tell it's transitive because it has a direct object noun phrase. — John Lawler, Sep 29 '15 at 02:37

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Yes. It's the past tense of the regular transitive causative verb lay. You can tell it's transitive because it has a direct object noun phrase.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:38

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answered Sep 29 '15 at 03:10

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