... is the subject of the sentence. For example, what is the subject in the follow-ing sentence, and which is the correct verb?Only one of the students [was/were] officially reg-istered for the ... per-forms the action. For example, lie is an action that the subject of the sentence “performs” on itself: I will liedown. The transitive verb lay, on the other hand, is anaction that the ... sense in the context of the story. (For example, a story that takes place in the pres-ent tense might use the past tense to talk about actionsthat happened before the story started.) Otherwise,...