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jpgray

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:27 PM
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DU grammar test

Edited on Wed Nov-24-04 05:28 PM by jpgray

Explain when it is proper to use "bring" rather than "take".

I'll be back later.

:)

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plcdude

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:29 PM
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1. It is all a matter

of relative perspective.

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:29 PM
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2. Question 2: Explain the difference between "lie down" and "lay down"

Now to answer your question:

"Bring" is carrying or accompanying something toward the speaker. "Take" is carrying or accmopanying something away from the speaker.

However, when the two verbs are often confused when the spatial relations are not clear.

Is that the answer you were looking for?

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freedom_to_read

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:31 PM
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4. "lie" is intransitive, "lay" is transitive

Edited on Wed Nov-24-04 05:32 PM by freedom_to_read

I lie down.
I lay my body down.

Or is it the other way around? "Ten thousand leagues beneath the ocean the land of Pepperland lay... or lie... I'm not too sure."

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Demit

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:31 PM
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5. lie down is intransitive; lay down is transitive.

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jpgray

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:33 PM
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8. You're also from Minnesota

So perhaps you will get my "borrow" joke below. That's worth exactly one fifth of a gold Grammar star.

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NV Whino

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:33 PM
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9. Lie and lay

Lie is to recline.
Lay is to place.

It gets really weird when you go to past tense. Past tense of lie is lay. As in: Last week I lay on the beach.

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Rumba

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:43 PM
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13. No, Lie is what Ken Lay did. eom.

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Wed Nov-24-04 07:39 PM
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15. That too, but "lie" also means to recline

When you get yourself horizontal on your bed, you're "lying" there, not "laying" there, unless somebody's with you ;-) In which case, you're "laying" somebody else.

"Lay" needs a direct object, you see. As one writer said, "lay down" means spread goose feathers. You can "lay the baby down" for a nap, but you yourself "lie down" for a nap.

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rock

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:50 PM
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14. Lie vs lay

If you lie, you could be sleeping.
If you lay, you're working (not counting sleeping at work).

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teach1st

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:29 PM
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3. Bring means arrival

Viewpoint: Arrival
Bring me the marijuana, dad, and we'll smoke a bowlful.

Viewpoint: Departure
Why did the police take all of my marijuana away?

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BlueJazz

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:31 PM
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6. LOL!...I was thinking something along that line...

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jpgray

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:32 PM
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7. Because your answer involves marijuana

You get the jpgray Junior Grammar Achievers Award. It's not mine, so I'll just borrow it to you.

:P

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teach1st

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:36 PM
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11. I'd like to thank all the people who made this possible...

Edited on Wed Nov-24-04 05:38 PM by teach1st

...but I'm too high. And I think I split a damn infinitive.

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jpgray

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:34 PM
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10. Bonus round

Edited on Wed Nov-24-04 05:35 PM by jpgray

Is Hypocrates some missing dialogue of Plato that everyone on DU seems to be talking about?

:dunce:

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teach1st

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Wed Nov-24-04 05:41 PM
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12. Hypocrates

The boxes in which junkies store their needles.

There is always hope even when it seems very bad.
Far from the southern vulcanic sirens comes the hope through the winds...

Don't try to talk, don't even try to move
You are too weak to think, or try to pull it through
We are the good ones, and we surely know the way
To give you better words you could ever say

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