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Yang
Does "she can’t grasps on an answer" make sense? When someone asks another person a question, and that person doesn't know the answer, can I write "she can’t grasps on an answer"? Thank you!

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Hello Yang! i agree with some of the points mentioned before. But I would like to add the following: I think that you may be confusing "grasp onto something" (which means to physically hold something that is why the preposition "onto" is used - to explain that the person is physically holding the object in their hands) with "grasp something" (which means to fully understand something). So the correct way of writing it would be: "She can’t grasp the answer". If the person is unable to grasp a specific answer then the correct determiner would be "the" and not "an"- "an" would be used if the speaker was talking about asking any random question so "the answer" refers to a specific answer and "an answer" would refer to any random answer. I hope that helps!
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Sounds too funky. I’d recommend “She can’t grasp the/an answer.”
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Thank you Alan and Olasubomi!!!
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An answer or the answer? In any case, that would be an unusual expression. To grasp "a concept" is a common expression.
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she can't grasp the answer. you can't conjugate two verbs in a sentence

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