Week 19: LIE on the foundation that Essentials LAYS.

Class Overview

This week we took a closer look at verb anatomy, using the infinitives to lay and to lie.  We followed that up with a quick glance at two sentence patterns, S/Vt/IO/DO and S/Vt/DO/OCN.  Finally, we enjoyed a review game!

Verb Anatomy

Using the verbs lay and lie is difficult even in English.  We utilized these in class to get a taste of the difficulty of learning a foreign language.  Here are the sentences we used.  We filled in the blanks with the correct word and form.  Chart D is the verb anatomy chart that we used as a reference.

I ________ (past) down in my bed.  lay
The workman __________ (pa. part.) bricks. laid
She has __________ (pa. part.) on the floor for three nights. lain
_________ (present) down. Lie
_________ (present) down the book. Lay

Remember that lay means to put and will always have a direct object. 

Lie means to lower and the subject will always be doing the lowering to themselves.

Sentence Patterns IO and OCN

We took a look at two sentences and I asked the students to tell me the pattern of each.  The first sentence was a bit more difficult because we have not visited the IO pattern in a while.

If she could, would Jenny give her sister the flute?  S/Vt/IO/DO
If she could, would Jenny elect her sister team captain? S/Vt/DO/OCN

In order to even approach these sentences, the students had to identify the introductory subordinate clauses and set them aside.  Then, because the remaining sentences were interrogative, they had to change around word order to find the subjects and verbs.

I was really proud of the way they tackled these difficult complex sentences: so much success to celebrate!

Review Game

Congratulations to everyone who played the review game! Though some teams ended up with more points, everyone was a winner because all displayed mastery of so much material.  You can find the Jeopardy style game on C3 file sharing; author, Classical Conversations.

Have a great, healthy, happy week!