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verbs my name is alicia and in this

lesson we’re going to talk about the

verb

lie let’s get started

the basic definition of the verb lie is

to be

in or to move to a horizontal position

examples i’m going to lie on the sofa

and read a book

we lay in the grass enjoying the sun

now let’s look at the conjugations of

this verb

present lie lies

past lay past participle

lane progressive lying

now let’s talk about some additional

meanings for this verb the first

additional meaning

is to have a certain place or position

examples the town lies at the base of

the mountains

here lies the famous poet so in these

example sentences

lie refers to the position of something

in the first example sentence the town

lies at the base of the mountains it

means

the town is located at the base of the

mountains the town’s position

is at the base of the mountains in the

second example sentence here lies the

famous poet

it means here is the famous poet this is

the location of the famous poet

however this is sort of a special

expression

here lies person is used for the body of

a person a person who has

died a person who has passed away when

we want to describe the location where

their body is we say here

lies so and so here lies the famous poet

here lies my former pet for example so

you can use it for pets i supposed to

but

here lies before the person let’s go to

the second additional meaning for this

verb

the second additional meaning is to

purposefully give

false information examples

don’t lie to me the company found out

she lied on her resume

so this use of lie refers to someone

purposefully meaning they plan to

share information that is not true it’s

false or there’s something that’s not

correct about it

so they’re doing it on purpose it’s not

just a simple mistake

it’s a plan so a lie is typically

regarded as a bad thing though there are

some situations where we might lie to

i don’t know help a situation that’s

beside the point

but in the first example sentence don’t

lie to me it means don’t tell me false

information don’t say

things to me that are not true in the

second example sentence

lie is used to refer to lying on

a resume a resume is a document you give

a potential employer it lists your work

experience

and your education history whatever is

relevant related to that

job to lie on your resume means to

submit

false information on your resume

information that is not

true so this is a big problem this is

not a good thing to do

so lying is considered bad so we use the

verb

lie to refer to that action to give

false information the third additional

meaning is to belong to

to belong to let’s look at some examples

responsibility for the success of this

project

lies with you the secret to this dish

lies in the sauce

so this might be a little bit tough to

understand but let’s look at the

examples carefully

so this meaning of lie to belong to

can be attached to like to people to

talk about their responsibilities or

their obligations

it can also be attached to objects as we

see in the second example sentence

to talk about some kind of

characteristic or feature of those

things

in the first example sentence we see the

responsibility for the success of the

project

lies with you in other words the

responsibility belongs to you

you have the responsibility of making

this project

successful in the second example

sentence

we see some special characteristic

described

so it’s about the sauce there so like

the secret to the dishes deliciousness

perhaps is

in the sauce so it belongs to the sauce

so there’s something special about the

sauce that makes the dish

delicious in other words the secret to

the dish

lies in the sauce belongs to the sauce

there’s something in the

sauce that makes it special so you can

think of this use of

li as meaning belong to to describe

responsibility or a special feature

something like that there’s a special

something that

consists within that thing

let’s go to some variations now some

variations with the verb

lie the first one is to lie low to lie

low

this means to be quiet or to refrain

from activities usually because you want

to hide for some reason

some examples i’m going to lie low until

all this drama is over

let’s lie low and see what our

competitors do

so the image here of lilo like if you

can remember back to the

basic definition of the verb to lie

which means to be

in or to move to a horizontal position

like you lie

in bed if you lie low it sounds like

you’re maybe at that horizontal position

but at a low

level like you’re hiding kind of so we

use this as an expression to mean like

we want to be

out of sight like we don’t want to be

seen so maybe we did something

embarrassing or disgraceful or maybe

there’s trouble

out there like at work or in society

or something that we don’t want to be

involved in something we don’t want to

be connected in for a while

so we can say i’m going to lie low the

idea

with this is that it’s temporary we’re

not going to lie low forever

usually we lie low for a short period of

time

and then we come back to our regular way

living life and doing things the second

variation is

to lie around to lie around this can

refer to

two things one that an object is in a

place it’s not

usually in or two to refer to a person

doing nothing absolutely nothing they

lie on the bed or they lie on the sofa

and do

nothing examples my phone is lying

around here somewhere

i just want to lie around all weekend so

in the first example sentence we see it

refers to a

phone in a place where it’s not supposed

to be

so maybe my phone has a specific spot in

my house i

always put my phone here but now it’s

not there i’m looking for it so i can

say my phone

is lying around here somewhere i don’t

know where

in the second example sentence it’s

about a person doing nothing like i just

want to lie around all weekend

that means i want to do nothing i want

to relax all weekend maybe

lying in bed or lying on my sofa lying

on the beach perhaps

so this means doing nothing relaxing

okay

so those are a few new ways i hope to

use the verb

lie there are lots of different ways to

use this verb so

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if you want to try to make some example

sentences

please feel free to do so in the comment

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