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Is it: I lie on my bed?
 Or: I lay on my bed?

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Do we say: Prices have risen or prices have raised?

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Hello and welcome everyone, this is Minoo at Anglo-Link.

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It's easy to confuse 'lie' and 'lay' and 'rise' and 'raise'.

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Especially because they're used differently in British and American English.

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So, in this lesson we're going to review these verbs 
 and make sure that you have no confusion in how to use them correctly.

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Before we start, a quick reminder that 
 focused listening activities are a great way to improve your speaking skills.

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You can learn more about this in my guide, 
 which you can download using the link in the description box.

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So, now let's look at these four confusing verbs 
 starting with.... 'lie' and 'lay'.

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What sounds right to you: I lie on my bed or I lay on my bed?

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Well actually, they're both correct!

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In British English we say: I lie on my bed.

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Whereas, in American English we say: I lay on my bed.

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So, let's look at the verb 'lie' in British English,

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and figure out what the Past tense and the Past Participle are.

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For example: Yesterday  I ..... on my bed. What's the Past Simple form.

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And, the Past Participle in a sentence like: 
 I  haven't ..... in the sun for the past five years.

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Let's see if you can fill in these two blanks.

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Let's look at the answers.

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Yesterday, I lay on my bed.

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And, I haven't lain in the sun for the past five years.

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So, It's lie, lay (past simple), and lain (past participle).

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So, how about American English? 
 What are the Past Simple and Past Participle forms in American English? 

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Look at the two sentences again:

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Yesterday I ..... on my bed. 
 And I haven't ..... in the sun for the past five years.

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And the answers are laid and laid.

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Yesterday I laid on my bed.

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And: I haven't laid in the sun for the past five years.

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So, we have lay, laid, laid.

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So, 'lie' in British English, and 'lay' in American English are intransitive verbs.

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We don't need an object after them.

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I lie or I lay on my bed.

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But there's also a transitive version of this verb.

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For example,  if you want to put your clothes on your bed, 
 what should we say now?

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I ..... my clothes on the bed.

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And the answer is again the verb 'lay'. I lay my clothes on my bed,

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both in British and in American English.

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And the Past and Past Participle forms are the same: lay, laid, laid.

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Other examples:

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Our hen laid five eggs yesterday. Or: I've laid the table.

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And coming back to 'lie', 
 don't forget that the verb 'to lie' has a second meaning,

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which is say something that's not true.

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For example: He always lies about his age.

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And the Past tense and Past Participle are regular: lie, lied, lied. 

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Right! That's all for the verbs 'lie' and 'lay'.

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Let's have a look now at the verbs 'rise' and 'raise'.

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To rise is to go up. 
 So, in both British and American English, it's an intransitive verb.

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For example: His salary rises once a year.

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So, let's see what the Past Simple and Past Participle forms are.

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For example: His salary ..... last year.

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Or: His salary has just .....

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The answers are 'rose' and 'risen'.

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His salary rose last year. 
 And: His salary has just risen.

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So, we have rise, rose, risen.

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And the transitive version of this verb is 'raise'.

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They raise his salary once a year.

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So, what are the Past Simple and Past Participle forms?

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And the answer for both forms is 'raised'.

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They raised his salary last year.

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And: They've just raised his salary.

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So, it's a regular verb: raise, raised, raised.

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And I'd like to end with just one other point, 
 which is about 'rise' and 'raise' as nouns.

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In British English we say: He's got to pay rise.

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But, in American English they say: He's got a pay raise.

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Right! That's the end of this lesson.

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Thanks a lot for watching, 
 and I'll see you very soon in my next lesson.

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Goodbye for now.