query: "He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down..." (Excerpted from "The Alchemist," by Paulo Coelho) is grammatically incorrect?
positive_passages.docid: 24812
positive_passages.text: Inquiry of the usage of "laid down"
negative_passages.docid: 148848
negative_passages.text: Which is grammatically correct: "Let he who..." or "Let him who..."
negative_passages.docid: 62223
negative_passages.text: Is "one" unnecessary in this quote of Melville?
negative_passages.docid: 91907
negative_passages.text: Under what rule of usage does this semicolon in the example sentence fall?
negative_passages.docid: 88002
negative_passages.text: Is "yesterday" a noun, an adjective or an adverb?
negative_passages.docid: 29598
negative_passages.text: "All I need (is/are) cigarettes and alcohol": which one is correct?
negative_passages.docid: 51270
negative_passages.text: "He walks as if he is drunk." Grammatically correct ? Any difference in meaning from "...as if he were drunk."?
negative_passages.docid: 115591
negative_passages.text: When is "loved" a past participle and when is it simple past?
negative_passages.docid: 65561
negative_passages.text: What's the meaning of 'lay over'?
negative_passages.docid: 158606
negative_passages.text: "Had better" — what is the meaning of this grammatically?
negative_passages.docid: 121704
negative_passages.text: Why is the noun "brush-off" hyphenated when the verb "to brush off" is not?
negative_passages.docid: 21462
negative_passages.text: scope of clause within complex sentence
negative_passages.docid: 7888
negative_passages.text: Is the sentence "I want to take a rest" wrong?
negative_passages.docid: 24945
negative_passages.text: Was "book" to "beek" as "foot" is to "feet"?
negative_passages.docid: 148690
negative_passages.text: Should we use past tense in "Lugo admitted he is the father"?
negative_passages.docid: 54915
negative_passages.text: Is this sentence correct? "What I want to do is read this book."
negative_passages.docid: 149859
negative_passages.text: "There is the man." Is *there* an adverb or pronoun?