Jay Honeck 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.

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


Crap. I mean transitive.


Try not to worry too much about it. My English professors (the good
ones, anyway) taught me that English is a living, breathing animal that
can't be caged or contained inside such silly, pedantic rules.

Ah, your professors didn't know the rules either, eh? :-)

Matt