The phrase "adequate grounding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the necessary knowledge or foundation required for understanding a subject or concept.
Example: "Before diving into advanced topics, it's essential to have an adequate grounding in the basics of the subject."
Alternatives: "sufficient foundation" or "proper basis".
She was denied tenure this year in part because her department decided her research lacked adequate grounding in traditional European philosophy, according to the department's report on her application.
The Bush administration, in a statement from the Office of Management and Budget last month, criticized the Senate bill as too expensive and singled out the auto safety proposals as lacking "adequate grounding in science, engineering and proof of net safety benefits".
Turn circuit breakers off and on with one hand; do not let the other hand touch the circuit breaker in case there is not adequate grounding.
In comments to reporters, Mr. Clinton said he had long questioned whether prosecutors had adequate grounds to keep Dr. Lee in jail for nine months awaiting trial.
The threat of punishment is not a logically adequate ground for moral behaviour, even if it is prudent to avoid punishment by behaving as ordered.
Luhrmann wants to create huge, throbbing set pieces, but he never establishes an adequate ground of normal reality from which those pieces would be an exultant relief.
I don't think college pranks are adequate grounds to question someone's religion, and it's a sign of desperation (or Karl Rove's presence) when faith is introduced as a wedge issue.
But John J. Rosenberg, a lawyer for the musicians, said the group had adequate grounds to fire Mr. D'Jon and the management company He added that he planned to file a counter suit showing that the group's success had been "achieved despite and not because of the efforts" of Mr. D'Jon and Top 40.
Although the woman asked that the case be postponed again, Ms. Hobbs said, the prosecution does "not believe that there are adequate grounds to make such a request since we have no basis to assure the court that the case will be in any different posture within a reasonable time".
Forming an intention is not predicting the future on the basis of what one takes to be, or what ought to be, adequate grounds.
Therefore, repeated patterns of definition and explanation are necessary to provide clear and adequate ground for the theories being adopted in the proposed research.
