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Perserr Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Stand In Door
I found a strange sounding phrase:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door
"the stand in the schoolhouse door"
The usage of "stand" suggests an act of physically standing. Some dictionaries have this sense too. But Is this sense of "stand" forced upon it and not generally used in other contexts, because the alternative, but more grammatical, way of rewriting the phrase:
"the act of standing in the schoolhouse door"
is unwieldy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door
"the stand in the schoolhouse door"
The usage of "stand" suggests an act of physically standing. Some dictionaries have this sense too. But Is this sense of "stand" forced upon it and not generally used in other contexts, because the alternative, but more grammatical, way of rewriting the phrase:
"the act of standing in the schoolhouse door"
is unwieldy?
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view=uk noun sense 1b
- view=uk noun sense 1b
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This is "stand" in the sense of "an act of holding one’s ground against or halting to resist an opposing force"
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/stand?view=uk noun sense 1b
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/stand?view=uk noun sense 1b
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