Simple Past versus Present Perfect

Valeria.Fontes
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I was checking an essay correction and, when replying to it, came up with a grammar question. Should I say "I understood your corrections" or "I've understood your corrections"? Are them both possible, depending on my emphacizing the action in the past, or the result of that action?

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Both are possible, but there is a difference in nuance which I'm unable to explain (hopefully an English teacher will comment). It depends on content, but "I've understood your corrections" is far more common.

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