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/rid/ 
| present tense | |
| I/you/we/they | read |
| he/she/it | reads |
| present participle | reading |
| past tense | read |
| past participle | read |
I read a few chapters of a book every night.
Here – read what his note says for yourself.
He was sitting reading in the waiting room.
Read on to find out more!
By the age of five, he could read and write.
I always read the paper from cover to cover.
She read extensively in science and economics.
Reading to young children helps develop their language skills.
Read me that last sentence again.
I'm going to read this poem aloud.
She will be reading from her latest novel.
I read somewhere that she was born in Chicago.
We read it in the local paper.
He likes reading about wildlife.
They had read the situation extremely accurately.
We had read their decision as an admission of failure.
This is the American English definition of read. View British English definition of read.
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using the Internet where you work, during working hours, for activities which are not work-related
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Open Dictionary
… to reveal a small part of your intentions in order to attract support, without actually committing yourself to doing anything
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