Question

She ( lay ) the table for five guests, correct the tense​

Answer 1

Answer:

1 : something that happens : occurrence. 2 : an event or series of events designed to evoke a spontaneous reaction to sensory, emotional, or spiritual stimuli. 3 : something (such as an event) that is particularly interesting, entertaining, or important.

Answer 2

Explanation:

There are two different verbs in English. The first one is “to lie” with the irregular past and past participle forms lay/lain. It is used for the “action” (or rather lack thereof) of something/someone just lying around somewhere.

“The boy is lying on the beach towel.” or, if that happened in the past:

“He lay on the beach towel.” So it is just the boy lying there. There is no direct object involved, or as we linguists say: “to lie” is an intransitive verb.

The second verb is “to lay”. That describes the action of putting something down somewhere, or rather: Someone causes something to lie somewhere. We call this a “causative verb”, because someone causes a direct object to do something. “to lay” is a transitive verb, it requires a direct object (because we need to know what or who is laid down). “to lay” has the past and past participle laid/laid.

So in your example, the correct form would be:

“He laid the book on the table.”

It would be:

“He lay on the table.” (if he was just a very lazy student).

But don’t worry. Many native speakers of English confuse the two.