Understood You

[lisa***]

good day!

my niece asked me to help her with her English homework.

Her homework is to write a sentence using "understood you" as the simple subject.
UNDERSTANDING YOU/ TO UNDERSTAND YOU are possible but i just can't come up with a sentence using " understood you" as the simple subject.

hope you could help me.

thank you!

 

[fromatto]

good day!

my niece asked me to help her with her English homework.

Her homework is to write a sentence using "understood you" as the simple subject.
UNDERSTANDING YOU/ TO UNDERSTAND YOU are possible but i just can't come up with a sentence using " understood you" as the simple subject.

hope you could help me.

thank you!

If I have understood you correctly, you want us to help your niece do her homework.

 

[David L.]

I don't think this is a major 'doing of someone's essay for them' as in some requests in this forum.

How about a misunderstanding being corrected, and saying:
"I'm sorry. I understood you to be saying that you ...(weren't going to go.)"

or
"Oh Ireland! I understood you were going to move to Iceland!.

However, 'you' is not, and I can't (in that construction of "understood you") see how 'you' could be made the subject either!

 

[fromatto]

I don't think this is a major 'doing of someone's essay for them' as in some requests in this forum.

How about a misunderstanding being corrected, and saying:
"I'm sorry. I understood you to be saying that you ...(weren't going to go.)"

or
"Oh Ireland! I understood you were going to move to Iceland!.

However, 'you' is not, and I can't (in that construction of "understood you") see how 'you' could be made the subject either!

I was trying to be witty and include the target words in my suggested answer.

 

[David L.]

Perhaps I misunderstood what was being asked by "using 'understood you' as the simple subject."

 

[fromatto]

Perhaps I misunderstood what was being asked by "using 'understood you' as the simple subject."

I was confused by that too. It's possible that the questioner is using 'subject' as 'the subject of the homework'.

 

[David L.]

Now the penny drops!