Sentence examples for understood English from inspiring English sources

None of them spoke or understood English.

He understood English perfectly but would not speak it, on principle.

He remembers how his Peruvian-born mother worked at a Revlon factory in Irvington even though she barely understood English.

She was taking a break when she joined the others in the shower room, and although Gilligan understood English, she wasn't sure if he believed her threat.

Needing an interpreter for my time in the village, we enlisted Emil Comsa, a neighbor who spoke French and understood English fairly well.

There was once an American who understood English perfectly, who had made a name for himself in Boston as a man of intelligence.

Do I understand English?

"Or even understand English".

"Do you understand English?". . .

He doesn't understand English.

Many people understand English.