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Originally Posted by svartnik  read = (intransitive verb) have qualities that affect understanding: to have particular characteristics that affect the way something is understood
'What/Who is/are the actor(s) in the sentence that is not expressed? The readers? Could not be. The sentence tells us about a property of a given book. |
Very good observation, svartnik.
The implication is that someone had to have read the book to know that it was readable. The subject is not important syntactically, as you have said, but it
is required semantically in order to understand that it is the reader, not the book, that reads well.
