Stand or stay practice for English learners. This interactive vocabulary exercise helps students practise the difference between stand, stood and standing, and stay, stayed and staying, in short everyday contexts.
Choose the correct option: STAND or STAY.
1. Don't STAY / STAND there in the doorway.
2. I want to STAY / STAND here this year.
3. Some companies STAY / STAND open also on Saturday.
4. He was STAYING / STANDING next to me... just doing his stuff.
5. I don't want to STAND / STAY single like you.
6. Tom just STOOD / STAYED there watching everybody dance.
7. I never STAYED / STOOD when I could sit.
8. They went and saw where he was STAYING / STANDING.
9. STAND / STAY with me.
10. One winter I was STAYING / STANDING on the mountain.