death and politics
You answer the question with "For personal reasons." It wouldn't do to answer the question with [say] "because I stood on a chair in front to the bosses desk and pee'd down on it in front of him.
Alexanderia stood among other hellenistic cities for all reasons except the harbor
The security guard stood outside the gates.
He stood apologetically in front of the staff.
i don't think so
She stood at the front of the line, eager to enter the store.
In Shakespeare's time - the groundlings
Stood is the past tense and past participle of "to stand." Stand does not form any common adverbs.
i stood Outside the house. Outside our car was a letter.
People stood because they could not afford to buy tickets to the part of the theatre where there were seats. Instead they stood in "the pit" immediately in front of the stage and were called "groundlings" because they stood on the ground.
That's easy, you can not see the front of the tree if your stood behind it!
Like the bow of a ship?