Talk:Fred Trump
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Lay, laid
Hi Update. Here's examples to clarify. "Lay" has two meanings. It is the past tense of "lie". Lay is also its own verb, which means to put or place something. Its past tense is laid. Examples: The land now lies vacant. The land lay vacant for years. "Lie" is intransitive (does not take an object). "Lay" is transitive (does take an object; examples: I lay the book on the table. Yesterday, I laid the book on the table.) In the text, "After the site laid vacant..." laid cannot be correct, because it is transitive, but in that sentence it does not act on an object; in the syntax of that sentence, it is being used where the past tense of the intransitive verb "lie" must be used. DonFB (talk) 09:50, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- I think using a different word is the way to go; "remained" is probably more encyclopedic. UpdateNerd (talk) 17:16, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Any of the alternatives is fine with me: remained, sat, lay. DonFB (talk) 18:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Signature
All,
I found a document containing the signatures of various members of the Trump Family.
DaveHolmes.bsky.social on X: "Second, Robert Trump’s signature bums me ALL THE WAY OUT. Don’t you know everything about this guy just from this document? https://x.com/DaveHolmes/status/1048986290899705856 / X Personisgaming Personisgaming (talk) 03:27, 24 May 2024 (UTC)