Is my sentence correct using the word notwithstanding?

Short Answer: All three (lie, lied, and lay) can be correctly used. "To lie" means to recline and doesn't require an object. It is an irregular verb that often confuses people because it is irregular and is sometimes confused with the verb "to lay," but you haven't done that.

YOU CAN SAY THE FOLLOWING CORRECTLY: "I answered his call wholeheartedly, not knowing the terror that LIED ahead." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/l... http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/... "I answered his call wholeheartedly, not knowing the terror that LAY ahead. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/l... (scroll down to lay^2) http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/lie.html "To lie," meaning to recline, has TWO acceptable conjugations for preterit tense in the third-person singular.

They are "lied" and "lay." "To lie" also has TWO acceptable conjugations for past subjunctive in the third-person singular, which are also "lied" and "lay" (see above links for reference). Your third option, "lie," is a bit trickier. Since the present tenses, including present subjunctive, can be used to communicate the general state of things (past, present, and future), you can use the present subjunctive "lie" in a modifying clause to a main clause whose verb phrase, "I answered," is in the preterit.

To do so, you would be saying that, not knowing the way things are now in the present or generally speaking, you did something in the past. As such, you can correctly say: "I answered his call wholeheartedly, not knowing the terror that LIES ahead." third-person, present indicative "I answered his call wholeheartedly, not knowing the terror that LIE ahead.

In the context which you have explained, the correct word is : LAY. Since ahead has been used, it indicates the future. Hence you can t use the past tense!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.