When do you use them? And HOW?

Here is a simple breakdown to guide your pen:

How does this correlate to the page—in the real world of writing?

Let’s take a look:

PRESENT TENSE:

• I am going to lie down on the floor.
• Henry lay his book on the floor.

PAST TENSE:

• Yesterday, Henry lay in the hammock before dinner.
• Yesterday, I laid the book in the hammock before dinner.

PAST PARTICIPLE:

• He had lain in the sand two hours before they left.
• He had laid the lunchbox in the sand two hours before they left.