2 Questions. Chapter 10

Which sentence is the correct one?

a) We are going to read English twice a week.

b) We are going to read in English twice a week.

the correct answer is a).

How many of the man's ribs are fractured?

a) Two of the man's ribs are fractured.

b) Two ribs.

c) Two ribs are.

d) Two ribs are fractured.

If this is a conv

Thinking SpainWhich sentence is the correct one?
a) We are going to read English twice a week.
b) We are going to read in English twice a week.

a.

Thinking SpainWhich answers are correct?
How many of the man's ribs are fractured?
a) Two of the man's ribs are fractured.
b) Two ribs.
c) Two ribs are.

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your reply. But why not 'in English'?

Best,

TS

Hi vvr_97,

Thank you for your reply.

Best,

TS

Thinking SpainBut why not 'in English'?

It seems like "read in English" should be correct, doesn't it? But it isn't. We don't read inEnglish. We just read English. But we communicate in English. It may not make a lot of sense, but that's how it is.

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your reply.

It may not make a lot of sense, but that's how it is. It really doesn't to me.Anyway, that's the way it is.

Best,

TS

All of the choices are apparently okay. The verb "read" is apparently being used in the sense of "to study in a university setting." This is British usage so I'm not absolutely sure about this, but in the UK, if you have a college English course twice a week, you apparently say a), or b).

Not intending to be argumentative, but anywhere I've lived (all in the USA) read in English would be perfectly acceptable for both colloquial and informal English usage, especially given the proper circumstances. Such as, I'm reading aloud from a book written in German, but I say what I read in English. . . . On second thought, that would mean I'm reading German and speaking E

AmicusCuriosaI think it would be nitpicking to criticize a teacher who teaches her students to read [in] more than one language, English among them, if she said, "Let's read in English today."

Agreed. I took the original question to be from a classroom setting where it would be perfectly natural for the teacher to make such a statement to her class.

AmicusCuriosaI'm reading aloud from a book written in German, but I say what I read in English

You may have a point, but this isn't the example you want because it has "say in English", not "read in English", i.e., say [it / what I read] in English ~ say in English [what I read]. The thread is more concerned with the complement of 'read' than the complement o