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Discover LudwigThe phrase "all I understood" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing the limited comprehension of a situation or information that was conveyed to you.
Example: "After the lecture, I was left confused; all I understood was that the topic was complex."
Alternatives: "the only thing I grasped" or "what I could make out".
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At nine years old all I understood was England were rubbish.
All I understood was that the music was about love.
In those raw first days, all I understood was grief, consoling, being consoled, and love for my departed friend.
This place where I was born and grew up and lived my entire life, it might as well have been Madagascar, for all I understood about it.
As Maxwell told me this story, all I understood about it was that it seemed at once disturbing and obliquely flattering.
Above all, I understood that liberties only survive amid well-structured state institutions.
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Music is all I understand".
("All I understand is when Rocky says 'Yo,' " Mr. Stallone said).
To top it all, I understand it is not included in the current government review of police accountability.
That's all I understand; that's all I want to understand," it doesn't just sound a bit like Keats; it makes as much sense, in its own way.
And when twenty-one-year-old Tony, the working-class would-be jockey turned taxi-driver, declares to Apted, "All I understand is dogs, prices, girls, knowledge, roads, streets, squares, mum and dad, and love.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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