The second sentence is incorrect.

Your app may simply get lost.

Will an app get lost because of the way it’s said?

What is the cause of your app being lost?

Is incorrect, can be corrected to: your

app may simply be lost.

Says that the app is lost somewhere.

What is “lost” is an adjective. It modifies the subject of a sentence through a verb. In your second sentence there is no verb; hence you will need to insert a verb to make the sentence grammatically correct.

If you longeren the sentence, you cannot change the meaning of the sentence.

In the message “Your app may simply get lost”, the action of the sentence is being performed upon the app. So if you change the sentence to make the app do the action (i.e. asking the app who is actually referring to the app) it will simply appear as a deleted text. If an app is allowed (for example to lose), then it completely changes

the semantics of a sentence. I’d recommend it to children.

Both answers are grammatically correct. The second one is a little sloppy. What is its meaning depends on what you’re saying: if it happened in the past, or if it’s likely to happen in the future, require different structures; I think Rimmer provided a good explanation on this part.

I dont understand the second question. Could you please advise me? “May” is a verb and such category usually requires them to follow another verb without the “to”, with the exception of “ought to” and “used to”. What do you see in these examples taken from the OLD. You

• may go home now.
• Find job. Who should I find?
• Is it good to quit smoking? Or at least not at all?
• I used to smoke but gave up two years ago. Do you smoke tobacco now?

What is the meaning of ‘Jobby & Billionaire’?

The word lost is the past participle of the verb lose. In the sentence “Your app may simply get lost” the verb phrase is “may simply get lost” where “get lost” is a verb structure known as a get -passive. It is a form of the passive voice that uses the verb get. Whereas the usual passive voice uses the verb be. (See this related question ).

The second sentence “Your App may simply lost” is ungrammatical. The auxiliary verb may require attachment to an infinitive verb phrase, and lost is a bare participle, so it cannot be used in that position.