The phrase "adequate grasp" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sufficient understanding or comprehension of a subject or concept.
Example: "To succeed in this course, students must have an adequate grasp of the fundamental principles of mathematics."
Alternatives: "sufficient understanding" or "reasonable comprehension."
Last month, the Confederation of British Industry claimed, not for the first time, that many pupils were leaving school without an adequate grasp of basic maths.
A study carried out last year found that half the teachers in Chile lacked an adequate grasp of the material they were supposed to teach.
Pope Benedict likewise expresses a deep-seated opposition to antisemitism and is profoundly sensitive to the horrors of the Holocaust but he and his closest advisors lack an adequate grasp of the depth of Christian complicity in its execution, including Catholic institutional complicity.
For within the time constraints imposed by the curriculum, it is effectively impossible for pupils to acquire an adequate grasp of the topic.
It requires an adequate grasp of the source text (plus associated conceptual framework) and the ability to render this coherently, using a suitable style and the correct terminology, in the target language, which should normally be the translator's mother tongue.
But he found an adequate grasp of the darting two-seamer in his pregame bullpen session and let it loose 33 times for 21 strikes.
Towards much skill behaviors and adequate grasping abilities (i.e. ARTICULATION and DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION), a new phase of dexterous hands have been developed recently with biomimetically oriented and bio-inspired functionalities.
But if morality is to be understood in terms of God's commands, we can give an informative account of what these unusual properties are; and if it is understood in terms of God's commands, then we can give an informative account of how God, being the creator and sustainer of us rational beings, can ensure that we can have an adequate epistemic grasp of the moral domain (Adams 1979a, pp. 137 138).
The 2011 Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) statewide results shows the percent of students with an adequate or superior grasp of the curriculum increasing from the previous year by an average of 2% in English-language arts, math, history and science, according to the state Department of Education.
Positive knowledge of languages and history was necessary, but it was never enough, any more than the mechanical gathering of facts would constitute an adequate method for grasping what an author like Dante, for example, was all about.
Subjects were trained to reach adequate detection performance levels and were grasping and reaching properly before starting the actual experiment.
