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Lie / Lay - Exercise 2

Direction: Choose the correct word in each sentence below. When you have finished, click on the "Check My Work" button to view the answers.

1. He (   ) about twenty feet of new pipe each day.

2. Pete is (   ) under that peach tree.

3. The ball was (   ) on the forty-yard line.

4. The mail carrier (   ) the package on the doormat.

5. Would you like to (   ) down before you eat lunch?

6. We all wondered where the clerk had (   ) the receipt.

7. Bill's bathing suit (   ) under the bed.

8. The lawyers (   ) the contracts aside for the time being.

9. She got a sunburn from (   ) on the beach too long.

10. Barbara said that she had (   ) the book on a table.

             

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