curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-express-disagreement/67b9afa1fc11ad099a2cb75a.md
Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.
I BLANK. BLANK isn't it challenging to manage communication and collaboration with everyone working at different times?
understand
This verb means to recognize or acknowledge someone's point of view.
But
This word introduces a contrasting idea or concern. The first letter is capitalized.
David uses I understand. But to show that he understands Anna's argument about flexibility but questions whether asynchronous work makes communication and teamwork harder.
This is a common way to express polite disagreement or raise a counterpoint in a discussion.
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