GATE2012 AR: GA-3

Question

Choose the grammatically CORRECT sentence:

• A. He laid in bed till $8$ o’clock in the morning.
• B. He layed in bed till $8$ o’clock in the morning.
• C. He lain in bed till $8$ o’clock in the morning.
• D. He lay in bed till $8$ o’clock in the morning.

Comments

Look for Q. 58 (Architecture 2012)

Official Question Paper: http://gate.iitk.ac.in/gate2012/qps/qpar.pdf

Official Answer Key: http://gate.iitk.ac.in/gate2012/keys/keyar.pdf
 

ANSWER IS D

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Answer 1

Answer should be "D"

$$\overset{\textbf{Lay vs Lie Chart}}{\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline \textbf{Infinitive} & \textbf{Definition} & \textbf{Present} & \textbf{Past} & \textbf{Past }& \textbf{Present}
\\&&&&\textbf{Participle} & \textbf{Participle} \\\hline \text{to lay} & \text{to put or place}\\&\text{something down} & \text{lay(s)} & \text{laid} & \text{laid} & \text{laying}  \\\hline \text{to lie} & \text{to rest or recline} & \text{lie(s)} & \text{lay} & \text{lain} & \text{lying} \\\hline \end{array}}$$

Lay means to put or set something down,

Lie, on the other hand, is defined as, “to be, to stay or to assume rest in a horizontal position

Answer 2

Lay and lie are both present-tense verbs.
$Lay$ means to put or set something down, e.g. I lay down the book. 

$Lie$, on the other hand, is defined as, “to be, to stay or to assume rest in a horizontal position,
e.g. I lie down to sleep or When I pick up a copy of my favorite magazine, 

In this question "the morning" is used, so, they are talking about a specific morning so this sentence is not talking about the habit.
lay is second form of lie,
Correct option is (D).

PS: Sentence in Hindi means, "vah aaj 8 baje tak bed me tha".

Answer 3

it sentence shows habitual action that's why the answer should be D. He lay in bed till 8 o’clock in the morning.  

correct me if i wrong.

Comments

Both the perspectives will give D as the answer. Habitual one as well as if we are talking about some past day

Answer 4

(A) He laid in bed till 8'o clock in the morning.

Comments

Then it should be He lays. Why lay??

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@  sushmita 

Lay is past tense verb.So we can not use lays...

option D is fine!!!

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Right .... (y)