Is there a way to keep predictive text without the list of suggestions popping up & blocking action?

[Android Central Question]

Is there a way to keep predictive text without the list of suggestions popping up & blocking action?

Is there a way to keep the predictive text but without the list of suggestions popping up and blocking action when you want to go back and edit part of your sentence and you insert the cursor between or next to a word that is underlined in red as an unrecognised word without having to add every single word to the dictionary?