Is the word "understanding" being used correctly in the following context?
"No offense, but I don't think you have a tiniest bit of understanding of the things you said. Could you elaborate on how any of these proves me/my theory wrong ?"

Overall, is this piece of text grammatically correct?

Thanks in advance!

Question

Is the word "understanding" being used correctly in the following context?
"No offense, but I don't think you have a tiniest bit of understanding of the things you said. Could you elaborate on how any of these proves me/my theory wrong ?"

Overall, is this piece of text grammatically correct?

Thanks in advance!

Answer

Yes- understanding is being used correctly here. 
Your confusion may stem from the fact that 'ing' words in English can be both present participles and gerunds. Gerunds can act as either a subject or object of a sentence.

The only other thing to correct is 'the' instead of 'a':  ...you have THE tiniest bit of understanding... (tiniest is a superlative so needs 'the' before it).

Hope this is helpful!

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"No offence, but I don't think you've got the slightest understanding of the comments you said. Could you elaborate on how any of this proves/how any of these prove me/my theory wrong?".

The most natural way might be: 'I don't think you've fully grasped what you've said'

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