The phrase "mounted the platform" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It typically means to physically get onto or climb onto a raised surface or structure. Example: The candidate mounted the platform and confidently delivered their campaign speech to the cheering crowd.
When at last he mounted the platform, the lilies departed the gridiron and arranged themselves on the sidelines.
About 150 metres before reaching the station, the last carriage of the train derailed and mounted the platform.
Boris Johnson mounted the platform at the Conservative party conference, set out his script, then peered around and demanded: "Where is Dave?" In the seventh row of the stalls, was the answer.
When the candidate, accompanied by his tall, beautiful wife, his two adorable little girls, and his own dazzling smile, mounted the platform amid the joyful thunder of an ecstatic crowd, the scene was set for the kind of political rock concert that unfolds when Obama is on his game.
With dozens of guards forging a corridor and aides guiding his steps, Mr. Arafat mounted the platform, adjusted his checkered kaffiyeh and stepped forward to light the torch to mark the revolution he started exactly 37 years ago by planting a bomb near a water pipeline in Israel.
Boris Akunin, an author of historical mystery novels, mounted the platform and acknowledged to an understanding cheer from the crowd that it was his first time too.
Mounting the platform, Ms. Rocher's creature expired grandly in a spiraling fall.
Our spatially-trained animals show steady improvement across training trials, as reflected by decreased latency to mount the platform, regardless whether the platform is hidden or visible.
The subject was removed immediately upon mounting the platform, gently dried with a towel and returned to the home cage on the near adjacent cage rack.
Photographs of the scene showed that one car had mounted the passenger platform, dislodging part of the roof.
Brendan mounted the poling platform and because the wind was fair and the water clear I sent a hopeful cast to a moving shadow.
