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Yesterday, I lay on the couch and read a book.

Which substitution in diction would best improve the plot in the sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence?

replace “on” with “near”
replace “lay” with “napped”
replace “book” with “Gulliver’s Travels”
replace “Yesterday” with “One cloudy afternoon”

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Replace book with Gulliver Travels. 
User Ashok Rathod
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i believe it is the third option
User Mike Chirico
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