is it 'laying down' or 'lying down'?

Question

i want to say in a sentence: i am laying/lying down. which is grammatically correct?

Answer 1

You've been given some very wrong answers. Some people obviously don't know what they're talking about.

Your sentence should read: I am lying down.

present tense of verb 'to lie'
I lie, or I am lying
you lie, or you are lying
he/she lies, or he/she is lying
we lie, or we are lying
they lie, or they are lying

past tense:
I lay, or I was lying, or I have lain
you lay, or you were lying, or you have lain
he/she lay, or he/she was lying, or he/she has lain
we lay, or we were lying, or we have lain
they lay, or they were lying, or they have lain

Answer 2

I'm confused. If I go out to a bar tonight, am I going to get lyed, lied, layed, or laid?

Answer 3

if you are putting something on the table for instance you could be laying down an item or if writing laying down a phrase but if you are going to lay down on the sofa you are lying down .
http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/classicerrors/grammartips/lyingandlaying

Answer 4

here's the difference:
the gardener is LAYING down the seeds.
ive spent my whole afternoon LYING down at the beach.

Answer 5

Laying it down is correct when you are placing an object.

Answer 6

woman lying down

Answer 7

laying down

Answer 8

you idiots, it is : lay past tense , lying means right now

Answer 9

Really?

Come on, man! Yahoo is so useful for crazy false information!.

Asker: Why did you accept cliffordex's answer as best without documentation??? Didn't you see the link to the Oxford site? Also see http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/laying?s=t for correct use of "laying down". Lying is telling a "lie"!

Answer 10

Lying down is something you do. Laying down is something you do to something else.

I am lying down.
I am laying down the book.