I don't want to be impolite to you

[alex_genius_20]

Hello,
I have made a dialogue but I can't make a sentence look natural.

Student (Alex): "Sir, I think this sentence is grammatically incorrect. Because it makes no sense to me."

Teacher: "Dear Alex, far from disrespect to you I think you don't understand it. It's correct and makes sense to me"
Teacher: "Dear Alex, away from disrespect to you I think you don't understand it. It's correct and makes sense to me"
Teacher: "Dear Alex, I don't want to disrespect you but I think you don't understand it. It's correct and makes sense to me"

How do you say the blue part in a short form?

Thank you

 

[Raymott]

Hello,
I have made a dialogue but I can't make a sentence look natural.

Student (Alex): "Sir, I think this sentence is grammatically incorrect. Because it makes no sense to me."

Teacher: "Dear Alex, far from disrespect to you I think you don't understand it. It's correct and makes sense to me"
Teacher: "Dear Alex, away from disrespect to you I think you don't understand it. It's correct and makes sense to me"
Teacher: "Dear Alex, I don't want to disrespect you but I think you don't understand it. It's correct and makes sense to me"

How do you say the blue part in a short form?

Thank you

"Alex, with respect, I don't think ..."

 

[alex_genius_20]

"Alex, with respect, I don't think ..."

Thanks for answering but "I don't think what?" I mean how will you say the rest of the sentence?

 

[bhaisahab]

Thanks for answering but "I don't think what?" I mean how will you say the rest of the sentence?

"I don't think you understand it."

 

[Raymott]

"I don't think you understand it."

Sorry, I missed the word order. I wasn't meaning to correct it; I just wrote what was correct without noticing
If you have come across the ellipsis, alex, that was a correct use of it. It just means I haven't bothered to write out the whole of the rest of your sentence. But bhai is right is pointing out that "I don't think you understand..." is better than "I think you don't understand..."

 

[emsr2d2]

I hope the teacher is going to say something more useful than "I don't think you understand it. It's correct and it makes sense to me". That's not much help to the student!

 

[bhaisahab]

I hope the teacher is going to say something more useful than "I don't think you understand it. It's correct and it makes sense to me". That's not much help to the student!

I agree. "I don't think you have understood it" followed by more explanation would be much better.

 

[Raymott]

Then again, we don't have the teacher's version. And it's likely to be fictitious, since we have three versions of what he said (if we are assuming that this is a true anecdote.

 

[Tdol]

Thanks for answering but "I don't think what?" I mean how will you say the rest of the sentence?

If you want a less direct version, you could say With all due respect, you may not have grasped the point/issue, etc...

 

[emsr2d2]

"With all due respect" is a great phrase. You can use when you genuinely mean "With respect" and you can use it when you mean "I disagree with you completely, I think your opinion is worthless but for some reason, I just can't say that out loud"! ;-)