I didn't comprehend

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

I didn't comprehend, of course.

"When I was growing up, I knew nothing about jazz, really, and I didn't like it because I didn't comprehend it," he said last week.

I didn't comprehend the word "teratoid," either — it was beyond my experience, belonging to the domain of the unimaginable and incomprehensible, the domain into which Dr. Tomita was now guiding us.

I didn't comprehend the intensity of love my heart can squeeze until his first cry.

Before this illness, I didn't comprehend or fully grasp how much one donation helps.

I didn't comprehend or understand why the situation went the way that it did.

Why have I taken blame for what I did not comprehend?

On the night, I did not comprehend events fully because I was in the dressing room.

I did not comprehend that the whole banking system would collapse like a house of cards.

Crinkling her brow, she said, "What I don't comprehend is, who voted for him?" No one we know that's the trouble.

It's also that there is much about Jane's (and by extension, Charlotte Brontë's) world that I don't comprehend and for which I can't feel much sympathy.