July 21, 2018　=========

☆  grasp   理解する

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If you say that grasp something that is complicated or difficult to understand, it means that you understand it. For example, you might say, “I’ve been studying English for a while now, and I think I’m finally beginning to grasp it.” Or you might not be that confident and instead want to say, “I’ve been studying English for a while now, but I still haven’t grasped it.”

However, I advise you not to use that second sentence, no need to send a negative message to your brain! Remember when I talked about Afformations earlier in the month, you could say something like this instead, “Why can I grasp English so easily?” or if you wanted to be more specific, “Why can I grasp English grammar/vocabulary/past tense/spelling (and so on – choose one) so easily?”

What Afformation would you make using the word grasp?

Bye,

Chris