("Bob Chilcoat" wrote)

Now take a note: it's "... LIE down on the seat" (lie is intransitive,
lay is transitive -- unless you're talking about the homonyms). You lay
down the pencil. You lie down to sleep.


Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.

- child's bedtime prayer - 18th century

Is laying yourself down [to sleep] intransitive - you become the pencil?


Montblack