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Mr. Tom Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

The use of "stiffly"

Hi

Do you find the use of "stiffly" natural here? If no, please edit the sentence.

The guards were standing stiffly at attention.

Thanks,

Tom
  

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"stiffly" is fine. I would actually say "standing to attention", but Google hits seem fairly evenly split between "to" and "at", and I'm wondering if this is a BrE/AmE thing.

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  • "stiffly" is fine.
  • I would actually say "standing to attention", but Google hits seem fairly evenly split between "to" and "at", and I'm wondering if this is a BrE/AmE thing.
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"stiffly" is fine.

I would actually say "standing to attention", but Google hits seem fairly evenly split between "to" and "at", and I'm wondering if this is a BrE/AmE thing.
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