Under most circumstances, I would imagine that the confusion is just there, not actually putting something down, so you would say "here's where the confusion lies". People get confused with this because the past tense of lie is lay. So if you ask me what I did on Sunday, it's correct for me to say "I lay on the couch playing Xbox in my underpants."
Treasury of Scripture. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. as. Matthew 12:40. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
We would instead write “flickering,” “burning,” or “blazing.”. The easiest way to distinguish between lay and lie: The former is a transitive verb that takes a direct object (noun or pronoun); the latter is intransitive. Lay the book down (transitive). Lie down for a nap (intransitive). That is not always the case.
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