STAND Basic Verbs Learn English Grammar

wanna speak real English from your first

lesson sign up for your free lifetime

account at English class 101.com

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 - him - 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 - meaning - to additional

meetings you okay the next meeting 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

used the progressive or the continuous

standing he is 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 it 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

like imagine you’re standing on your two

feet

yes but the pictures also maybe have

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 stanza

in the present tense to refer to it’s

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 4 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 and 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 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 specifically 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 matter him 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 wow 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

alright 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 section if you liked the

video please make sure to give it a

thumbs up subscribe to our Channel and

come check us out at English class

101.com for other good resources for

your studies thanks very much for

watching this episode of know your verbs

and we’ll see you again soon bye

[Music]