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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 - 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
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