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hi everybody welcome back to know your
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
to
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
of
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
if you have any questions or comments or
if you want to try to make some example
sentences
please feel free to do so in the comment
section of this video
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bye bye no lies were told in the making
of this episode
to my knowledge
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