<p>my essay is in past tense as you can tell</p>
<p>"I laid in bed, repeating that same question, "Who are you? Who are you?"</p>
<p>After a minute of absorbing the silence, I began to hear the wind howling outside"</p>
<p>msword underlined laid green and when i right-clicked, it suggested lay, but it sounds better laid right? because that's the past tense term right?</p>
<p>but my friend said that lay can apply for past tense too. true?</p>
<p>the word “lie” is used reflexively so there’s no direct object, “lay” is transitive, putting another object down, so there is a direct object. what’s confusing is that the past tense of “lie” (intr.) is “lay,” and the past tense of “lay” (tr) is “laid.”</p>
<p>in your situation, the word you’re using is “lie,” so the correct past tense would be “I lay in bed.”</p>
<p>oh, thanks!
well i submitted this essay to bu, uvm and conncollege. it’s my only grammatical error. will they overlook it?</p>