Name: STAND - Basic Verbs - Learn English Grammar
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My name is Alicia, and in this episode we're going to talk about the verb stand.

The basic definition of the verb to stand is to support yourself on your feet.

Here are the congregations of this firm present stand stands past stood past.

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.

So in these two examples, there's something negative.

Or there's something unpleasant involved in the first example sentence.

So by saying I can't stand the sound of her voice, it means I can't tolerate this negative experience.

So, in other words, her voice sounds unpleasant.

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.

He can't tolerate the smell, but we use stand.

Let's go demeaning to to just meaning to Okay, The next meaning is to be in or to put in a place.

I stood the pictures against the wall, so in these examples, we use the verb stand with, like an adverb or a proposition.

So in the first example, I said he's standing.

I used the progressive or the continuous standing.

He's standing next to a tree next to so there's some, like positioning word there.

Here's the tree next to win enough so we typically use some kind of proposition, or like an adverb words there to describe the relationship.

In the second example sentence, we saw the same thing.

I stood the pictures against the wall so here were using the word against So that shows the pictures were stood against.

So if this is the wall and these are the pictures, I stood the pictures against the wall so we could say, Ah, 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 walls like we stand up the object so we can see the picture against the wall.

Ah, with this meaning of the verb to stay 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.

And then I said, over 400 feet tall over means more than 400 feet is the height and then tall.

We used to refer to the height of the object in general, so the tower stands over 400 feet tall.

She stood 170 centimeters tall when she was a teenager, So we're using theme measurement.

So 400 feet, 170 centimeters, we followed 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 meeting number four for this verb is to have an opinion to have an opinion.

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?

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, 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.

Or maybe, where do you stand on environmental issues, for example, something like that.

In the second sentence, we see the same thing.

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 1st 1 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.

You should stand up for yourself if you know you're right.

We also I want to introduce one that's also very similar to this, which is to stand up against to stand up against, um, that means to defend yourself against a specific enemy or a specific like kind of attacker can be verbal again.