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/riːd/ 
| 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.
He was sitting reading in the waiting room.
By the age of five, he was able to read and write.
I always read the paper from cover to cover.
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.
He likes reading about wildlife.
We read it in the local paper.
They had read the situation extremely accurately.
We had read their decision as an admission of failure.
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