If we look at it as a verb first you’ll notice that it is really quite easy to use in sentences and that the past participle and simple past form are made by simply adding a ‘d‘ to the stem ‘lie‘. Have a look at these examples:
She lied to me when she told me that she loved me.
They always lie about their income.
He has lied about his education and they have discovered that he is not a doctor.
He was lying when he said that he had not stolen the money.
Notice that when you you use it in a progressive or continuous form - she is lying, they were lying etc, that you replace the ‘ie‘ with ‘y‘ and then add ‘ing’.
If you use it as a noun - a lie - we always use it with ‘to tell‘ and not, as in your sample sentence, with ‘to say’. So if I correct your sentence for you it will be:
Why do I need to tell a lie?
Notice, Lakesh, that I have also added the auxiliary ‘do’ to ensure that the interrogative form is correct.
Lets look at a few more examples where ‘lie‘ is used as a noun. Note that someone who tells lies is called a ‘liar‘:
Some people think politicians are professional liars.
It is better to tell the truth than to tell a lie.
A liar has to have a good memory to remember all of their lies.
She was a liar and rarely told the truth.
You do not need to tell lies about yourself to impress people.
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