Object

• importance: They recognize that there is a great variety of living things and understand the importance of classification.

• nature: Now you say we don't understand the nature of metaphor or this process completely.

• concept: Cannot understand concepts of integrity or duty to court.

• implication: But I sometimes wonder whether the Government understand the implications of their own proposals.

• meaning: For example, some users do not understand the meaning or the syntax of domain names.

• mechanism: To control an epidemic of FMD it is essential to understand the mechanism by which the FMD virus is being spread.

Adjective complement

• more: Retinal vessel occlusion Summary: Simple guides designed to help you understand more about your eye condition.

• English: People cannot understand English, but reject Somalian interpreters for fear of disclosure.

Modifying Another Word

• fully: We will neither fully understand him, nor argue him away.

Used with why or when

• why: You begin to understand why the game ships on three CDs.

• what: Make sure you understand what you are agreeing to.

• where: In fact, sometimes it's quite interesting to discover where a person comes from in order to understand where they are now.

• who: Most obvious is the intent that the recipient understands who is invited.

• which: One strand of the research will help to understand which parts of the brain deal with complex sounds such as speech.

• when: However, I cannot understand when others are too dogmatic.