Sabrina, your first sentence confuses the past tense of the transitive and intransitive forms of the verb; your second sentence is not in the passive form. Your correction is good, though!
Jefferson, you made the same mistake as Sabrina in the first sentence. Your second sentence is in the simple past tense, not the passive voice.
Sarah, you made the opposite mistake.
"Lay" is a very confusing word.
Present, transitive, active: "Now I lay me down to sleep."
Past, transitive, active: "Then I laid me down to sleep."
Present, transitive, passive: "The book is laid on the floor."
Past, transitive, passive: "The book was laid on the floor."
Present, intransitive, active: "Now I lie in bed."
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Active: Jane lay the blanket on the bed.
Passive: My blanket was lying on the floor.
Correction to above passive
Passive:
The tools were laid on the floor.
Active: The teacher lay the book on top of the table.
Passive: The book, on the table, lay on top of the teacher.
Active: The cat laid by the fire.
Passive: By the fire lay the cat.
Sabrina, your first sentence confuses the past tense of the transitive and intransitive forms of the verb; your second sentence is not in the passive form. Your correction is good, though!
Jefferson, you made the same mistake as Sabrina in the first sentence. Your second sentence is in the simple past tense, not the passive voice.
Sarah, you made the opposite mistake.
"Lay" is a very confusing word.
Present, transitive, active: "Now I lay me down to sleep."
Past, transitive, active: "Then I laid me down to sleep."
Present, transitive, passive: "The book is laid on the floor."
Past, transitive, passive: "The book was laid on the floor."
Present, intransitive, active: "Now I lie in bed."
Past, intransitive, active: "Then I lay in bed."
Present, intransitive, passive: none.
Past, intransitive, passive: none.
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