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hi everybody welcome back to know your
verbs my name is alicia and in this
episode we're going to talk about the
verb stand let's go
the basic definition of the verb to
stand is to support yourself on your
feet
examples
i am not standing
don't stand in the street
here are the conjugations of this verb
present stand stands
past
stood past participle stood
progressive standing
okay now let's talk about some
additional meanings of this verb
meaning one the first meaning is to
tolerate something that's negative or
unpleasant examples
i can't stand the sound of her voice
he can't stand the smell of
gasoline so in these two examples
there's something negative or there's
something unpleasant
involved in the first example sentence
it's
the sound of her voice so by saying i
can't stand the sound of her voice it
means i can't tolerate this negative
experience that is the sound of her
voice so in other words her voice sounds
unpleasant her voice is negative i don't
like it i can't stand it i can't
tolerate it in the second example
sentence which was he can't stand the
smell of gasoline
in that sentence the smell of gasoline
to him to whoever he is in the sentence
is really unpleasant and he can't
tolerate it he can't stand the smell he
can't tolerate the smell but we use
stand i can't stand that thing so
something unpleasant let's go to meaning
two two additional meaning two okay
the next meaning is to be in or to put
in a place
examples
he's standing next to the tree
i stood the pictures against the wall
so in these examples we use the verb
stand with like an adverb or a
preposition so in the first example i
said he's standing i use the progressive
or the continuous standing he's standing
next to a tree next to so there's some
like positioning word there he's
standing next to a tree so him here's
the tree next to one another so we
typically use some kind of preposition
or like an adverb word there to describe
the relationship in the second example
sentence we saw the same thing i stood
the pictures against the wall so here
we're using the word against so that
shows the pictures were stood against it
looks like this so if this is the wall
and these are the pictures i stood the
pictures against the wall so we could
say the pictures i leaned the pictures
against the wall i guess but we also can
say i stood the pictures against the
wall so stood is like imagine you're
standing on your two feet yes but the
pictures also maybe have um like their
feet the bottom of the picture is on the
ground and we lean them we stand them
against the wall like we stand up the
object so we can see the picture against
the wall so we'll use adverbs and
prepositions
with this meaning of the verb to stand
meaning three meaning three is to be at
a certain height some examples of this
the tower stands over 400 feet tall
she stood 170 centimeters tall when she
was a teenager
so you can probably hear in both of
these sentences i'm talking about height
of an object or the height of a person
so in the first example sentence i
talked about a tower so the tower was
over 400 feet so in the first example
sentence i said the tower stands over
400 feet tall so i'm using stands in the
present tense to refer to its like
constant condition so remember we use
present tense to talk about general
facts
so the tower stands it stands and then i
said over 400 feet tall over means more
than 400 feet is the height and then
tall we use to refer to the height of
the object in general so the tower
stands over 400 feet tall
same thing in the second sentence she
stood 170 centimeters tall when she was
a teenager so we're using the
measurement so 400 feet 170 centimeters
we follow by tall and all of that is
preceded by stan the verb stand so she
stood
170 centimeters tall when she was a
teenager that's past tense though so we
can use stand to refer to the height of
someone or something so meaning number
four for this verb is to have an opinion
to have an opinion let's look at some
examples
where do you stand on gun control
i don't know where she stands regarding
this issue
so this use of the verb stand is
something we see a lot in like politics
in the news perhaps in policy debates or
policy discussions we use this kind of
stand to talk about an opinion we have
about a specific topic so we'll follow
the verb stand with on or perhaps
regarding or maybe with regard to so in
my first example sentence i talked about
gun control as the topic i said where do
you stand on gun control so where do you
stand on gun control on in this sentence
really means about but we don't use
about after the verb stand we don't say
where do you stand about gun control
that's not an expression we use instead
we use on where do you stand on gun
control and also we typically use an
expression like this in very common or
very well-known topics so if you're
debating something that's very very
specific uh it's probably not a good
idea to use stand in that case we use it
for very very broad topics that most
people are familiar with and that most
people have an opinion about so gun
control could be one example or maybe
where do you stand on environmental
issues for example something like that a
very general well-known topic in the
second sentence we see the same thing i
don't know where she stands regarding
this issue so regarding is like a formal
word meaning about again we don't use
about here but regarding is okay to use
so the same thing as we saw in the first
example sentence we're introducing like
a topic for discussion that is well
known in that condition in that state
now let's look at some variations with
the verb stand the first one is to stand
up for oneself or to stand up for
yourself this means to defend yourself
against attacks usually verbal attacks a
verbal attack is an attack with words
someone shouting or an argument
examples of this you should stand up for
yourself if you know you're right
the young girl stood up for herself
we also i want to introduce one that's
also very similar to this which is to
stand up against to stand up against
that means to defend yourself against a
specific enemy or a specific like kind
of attacker it can be verbal again so
examples of this
i stood up against the scary manager
or
he stood up against his greedy landlord
so in these examples where we're
standing up to someone else or standing
up against something else we're
defending ourselves against some kind of
negative
thing outside us so like he stood up to
his greedy landlord meaning he defended
himself against this person who's trying
to i don't know take advantage of him or
something or i stood up to the scary
manager so that means the manager
there's some kind of negative force
there with the manager but i defended
myself against that so we can say to
stand up against that specific person or
that specific enemy or we can say to
stand up for yourself so for introduces
like the reason the thing we are
defending so i stood up for myself we
can also replace that like i stood up
for my mom i stood up for my younger
brother at school so when you're
defending someone else you can use that
expression the next variation is to
stand out to stand out this means to be
noticeable to be very noticeable
examples
whoa that guy's hair really stands out
this candidate really stood out from all
the other applicants
so to stand out meaning to be very
noticeable in these example sentences
maybe this guy has just big hair and we
can really see him like easily we can
say whoa that guy's hair stands out or
maybe he has like bright neon yellow
hair or something so something that's
very noticeable about a person we can
say whoa that person really stands out
like physically we can see them really
really well we have that but we can also
use the expression to stand out to talk
about a person's skill sets or their
abilities like when you're reviewing job
applications for example like wow this
person has a really amazing skill set he
or she really stands out from the
competition or she really stands out
from the other applicants for example so
you can talk about being able to
physically notice someone really well or
you can talk about noticing someone for
their skills and their abilities with
the verb to stand out great all right so
those are a few maybe new meanings of
the verb stand and some variations for
you of course if you know of other ways
to use the verb stand or if you want to
try to make an example sentence please
feel free to do so in the comment
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