Hotmale Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
... “didn’t get at
Hello,
Could you please help me understand the phrasal verb used in the sentence? I can only guess its meaning.
Traditional ways of looking at intelligence “didn’t get at the process of learning"
What does (not) get at mean in this sentence? Is it like "get along"?
Thank you
Could you please help me understand the phrasal verb used in the sentence? I can only guess its meaning.
Traditional ways of looking at intelligence “didn’t get at the process of learning"
What does (not) get at mean in this sentence? Is it like "get along"?
Thank you
Top answer
org/wiki/get_at : To understand or ascertain by investigation.
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It appears to be used in sense 2 at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get_at:
To understand or ascertain by investigation.
To understand or ascertain by investigation.
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