Understand, howl --- why are they verbs?

why they are verbs ? Because they are in association with an action

one uses his brain to think then he understands so ' un

Hey, whl626 - just a polite question. Do you hail from America, by any chance?

I ask because it would be common in America to say "One uses his brain...", but in Britain it would be MUCH more common to say "One uses one's brain...". (The Americans, for some reason, have a problem with the word "one's", which is curious, because it's the "obvious" word to use, given that yo

I am a Malaysian. English is not my national langauge or my mother tongue. In fact, I wanted to use ' one's ' as you said, but the t

English is not my national langauge or my mother tongue

I wouldn't have guessed. Jeez, you're good.

Rommie

Yep, I'll have to agree! For a non-native whl626 is pretty darn good

I myself don't like repetition of words

Sure, but it's a pronoun - you're allowed to repeat pronouns. That's why they're there - so that we don't have to keep repeating the words for which they stand. If we couldn't repeat pronouns either, we'd be really stuck. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Rommie

PS. We've drifted off top

good ?

There is still a long long road ahead in terms of squeezing myself into the good category.

Everything is relative WHL.
Your understanding of English is way better than 99% of the world's population, and is ALREADY GOOD!!!. Not only that but you do a great job in helping others. Often native speakers don't understand the 'nuts and bolts' of their own language, and you do a great job explaining.
Keep it up!!

Thanks for the compliment. More power to me !!!

Hi

Many tks to whl626 for helping me! I somehow understood why 'howl' is a verb......as for 'understand', i'm still trying to know why, from the answer that you've given.


Hey i also agree with the rest that your English is GOOD! Did you ever went oversea for studies? If not did you learn English on your own or what???


Also many tks to Rommie for helping me