The phrase "and he grasped" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a moment when someone understands or physically takes hold of something.
Example: "As the teacher explained the concept, he grasped the idea quickly and began to apply it in his work."
Alternatives: "and he understood" or "and he seized".
I guess I was one of the straws he bumped into in his flailing, and he grasped me really hard.
He played cello in the Vienna State Opera Orchestra under Mahler's direction, and he grasped the undying appeal of unreconstructed orchestral lyricism.
When Gouzer inspected the gallery, he thought that the position of the sculpture needed adjustment, and he grasped the figure almost tenderly around its slender ankles.
On his comely head he set his helmet, well-wrought, with a crest of horse-hair that nodded menacingly above it, and he grasped a redoubtable spear that suited his hands.
"He understood how important the caucus states would be, and he grasped that voters in African-American Congressional districts would have a disproportionate impact in selecting the nominee," he said.
Yet, early on, he grasped two things that were far from obvious at the time, and he grasped them more clearly and pursued them more fiercely than his rivals did at Commodore, MITS or even Apple.The first was that computing could be a high-volume, low-margin business.
At 50, Mr. Parker is just a bit older than the music we know as free jazz, and he grasps the predicament facing its current practitioners.
And then he grasped my forearm and whispered, in that low, husky, irresistibly ruthless voice, "Mr. President — you, too?" Then he opened the briefcase he always keeps handcuffed to his wrist and showed me all of his most treasured photos — J.K. in shirtsleeves, his tie loosened; a young J.K., radiant in fatigues; J.K. at the Convention podium, offering that dashing "Reporting for duty" salute.
Perhaps because the composer understood that there were still insurmountable barriers between painting and music; he grasped the limits of the analogy between visual abstraction and his own freeing of dissonance.
I reached down with my finger toward his other hand, and although he grasped it, he just kept on moaning when I asked him questions.
When the gallery invited him to make etchings and lithographs, he grasped the chance, even though – or perhaps because – these were unfamiliar media.
