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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Standing down/bottom of the bridge

I got down from the stairs of a bridge and standing there waiting for someone.

In that scenario, shall I say ''I'm standing at the bottom of the bridge'' or ''Shall I say I'm standing down the bridge'' or something else.

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I'm standing at the bottom of the stairs. (This is idiomatic. ") We don't know enough about the surrounding structure to say anything more specific.

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  • I'm standing at the bottom of the stairs.
  • (This is idiomatic.
  • ") We don't know enough about the surrounding structure to say anything more specific.
  • Are we on a road - a sidewalk - on the grass - in a park - on the river bank?
  • As far as I know, bridges don't have bottoms.
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I'm standing at the bottom of the stairs. (This is idiomatic. It doesn't mean, "on the bottom stair.")

We don't know enough about the surrounding structure to say anything more specific.
Are we on a road - a sidewalk - on the grass - in a park - on the river bank?

As far as I know, bridges don't have bottoms.
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I'm standing on a lane
The bridge looks something like this :
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This appears to be a "pedestrian bridge" over a highway. The ground where one "exits" the bridge looks like a mixture of dirt, grass and gravel.

Perhaps something like, "I'm standing on the ground, at the bottom of the stairs to the bridge."

OR ". . . . at the bottom of the stairs to the pedestrian overpass."

I had been trying to picture a huge highway bridge acros
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