http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3615.39139)http://www.englishforums.com/English/LieLay/cpmhr/post.htm#244477Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:46:24 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:244477CalifJim0http://www.englishforums.com/English/LieLay/cpmhr/post.htm#244477http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-244477.xmlI realized how exhausted I was, and how little I was looking forward to what LAY ahead. It's perfect. Compare: I realize how exhausted I am, and how little I am looking forward to what lies ahead. Present tenses: I realize, I am, I am looking forward, what lies. Past: I realized, I was, I was looking forward, what lay. lie, lay, lain CJhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LieLay/cpmhr/post.htm#244392Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:46:24 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:244392Goodman1http://www.englishforums.com/English/LieLay/cpmhr/post.htm#244392http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-244392.xmlAnonymous wrote: I realized how exhausted I was, and how little I was looking forward to what LAY ahead. Is this correct? What should this be? Thanks! Hope this article helps ..... LANGUAGE CORNER Lie, Lay, and All That Lie This to Rest? BY EVAN JENKINS No, of course not. But the confusion between "lie" and "lay" was different and subtler in the following passage, which said someone who maneuvered for a job too overtly "did not do what a shrewd operator would do and lay low, but openly threw himself into the matter." Someone was thinking of the expression "to lie low," meaning to hunker down, make oneself inconspicuous. Introduced by "did not," as it was in the example, the verb required the present tense: the...http://www.englishforums.com/English/LieLay/cpmhr/post.htm#244331Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:46:24 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:244331Clive2http://www.englishforums.com/English/LieLay/cpmhr/post.htm#244331http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-244331.xmlHi, It's fine. Clivehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LieLay/cpmhr/post.htmWed, 25 Mar 2009 01:46:24 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:244324Anonymous3http://www.englishforums.com/English/LieLay/cpmhr/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-244324.xmlI realized how exhausted I was, and how little I was looking forward to what LAY ahead. Is this correct? What should this be? Thanks!