stand
Base form
stand
/stænd/
Past simple
stood
/stʊd/
Past participle
stood
/stʊd/
MeaningA1
to be on your feet
to stand up for yourself
In use
- Imperative · Form 1Stand behind the yellow line until the train stops.
- After a modal verb · Form 1You shouldn’t stand so close to the edge of the platform.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday we stood outside in the rain for an hour waiting for a taxi.
- Past simple · Form 2Last night everyone stood up when the bride came in.
- Present perfect · Form 3I’ve stood in this queue for forty minutes and it hasn’t moved.
- Past perfect · Form 3The old mill had stood empty for years before it became a hotel.
Watch out
Stood sounds like good, not like food, and the same form hides in understood: standed does not exist.
Same pattern
A — B — BForms two and three are the same
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