read

English [ri: d; Red]? Beauty [ridr? d]？

Reading; Read, understand

Reading with intransitive verbs; Read it.

Reading; reading material

learned

[past tense reading past participle reading present participle reading]

Fixed collocation

Read English? Read English

Know what? Read and know

Reading? Reading, reading.

Reading? Read a book, read a book

example sentence

I encourage them to read or go out for a walk when I can. ?

I encourage them to read or go outdoors when I can.

What are you doing in the library? We read story books. ?

What are you doing in the library? We read story books.

Extended data

Usage of read

The basic meaning of read is "reading" and "reading", which refers to the ability or behavior of reading. It means to understand the content by reading. Extension can refer to reading, explaining, understanding and marking.

Read can be used as both an intransitive verb and a transitive verb. When used as a transitive verb, it can take nouns, pronouns, infinitives with interrogative words, that clauses or interrogative sentences as objects or double objects. Its indirect object can be transformed into the object of the preposition to or for, and can also be used as a phrase as a compound object as a complement. Read can sometimes be used as a copula, followed by a noun as a predicate.

Read is not used in the passive structure when it is used for "reading, silently reading, reading aloud" and "discovering someone's situation through reading". When it follows a compound structure containing as phrases, it is often used in the passive structure.

As an intransitive verb, read emphasizes behavior rather than object, and is often followed by adverbs or prepositions to indicate the way of reading, and its active form can indicate passive meaning.

Understand it as ... meaning "think".

Read can be used in the present perfect continuous tense without an object, but it must be followed by an object in the present perfect tense.