1.''What do you understand the meaning of better life?"
2"What do you understand by the meaning of
better life?"
I want to know whether these two questions are different in meaning.
phrase-meaning
1.''What do you understand the meaning of better life?"
2"What do you understand by the meaning of
better life?"
I want to know whether these two questions are different in meaning.
Best Answer
The second sentence is correct and can be shorten to:
Another example:
Some words needs a preposition (by, to, of, from ...) to take an argument and if you omit that preposition the sentence become ungrammatical. Specially, if they take more than one argument:
You say:
You can't say:
Understand takes a direct object without any preposition like:
In your sentence "what" plays this role and "What do you understand" is a complete sentence, but for its other argument it needs "by" preposition