Questions tagged [lie-lay-lain-laid]

I’ve seen these two sentences written in two different books: Then the whole army advanced against the three who were laying in wait for it calmly. (Albanian Folktales and Legends by Robert Elsie) Many times in the past we had faced attacks from…

Should this sentence use laying or lying? Last week at this time, I was ____ on Sarah’s bed. Can someone fill in the blank for me?

He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Is to lay a typo? If I'm not mistaken, one can only lie on one's stomach, not lay on it. For this to be a duplicate question, I would have had to ask, again, what are…

I need to know which version is correct. "The scissors are lying on the desk". "The scissors are laying on the desk".