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Originally Posted by DucksNuts
It is lays isnt it? no llies ahead?....clod???
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Well, since you asked...
It would probably be lies, depending on how you mean it. "Lay" indicates that something is doing the laying to something else--
I lay the book on the table. "Lies" is a current condition, something already done--
a book lies on the table. So the future is a thing that already lies ahead, or it is an entity that is laying things ahead of us. Take your pick.
The really stupid part is that "lay" is also the past tense of "lie," so you would
also say
yesterday the book lay on the table, and
yesterday I laid the book on the table. Moral of the story: English is dumb.