The phrase "grasped the methods" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's understanding or mastery of specific techniques or procedures.
Example: "After weeks of training, she finally grasped the methods required to operate the new machinery."
Alternatives: "understood the techniques" or "mastered the approaches."
Hardy finds it difficult to grasp the methods of his friend, who doesn't use traditional proofs to solve his problems.
Among Dyson's gifts is interpretive clarity, a penetrating ability to grasp the method and significance of what many kinds of scientists do.
Anyone who had seen executive producer Andrew Haigh's moving indie feature Weekend (2011) – about a short-term love affair between two gay men – would grasp the method behind the understatement: anything that society dictates as outré, treat as entirely commonplace.
Philosopher of science and physicist Henri Bortoft used teaching tales from Shah's corpus as analogies of the habits of mind which prevented people from grasping the scientific method of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Brand, having finally grasped the ruthlessness of Hitler's methods, joined the assault.
When prey are too large to be completely enclosed within the foot, constriction is no longer a viable immobilisation strategy, and because the prey cannot be fully grasped, the raptor must alter its method for preventing escape.
These developmental iterations revealed, moreover, that right from the start practitioners at all levels grasped the principles/methods distinction.
(To see him attempting to grasp the Duckworth-Lewis method, visit this URL: bit.ly/gowerisagenius – I'm not joking).
The current ideology of New World Order ideologues, many of whom are renegade communists, is Market-Leninism - that combination of a dogmatic economic model with Machiavellian methods to grasp the levers of power.
