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The phrase "can hardly read" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to indicate that someone cannot read very well or that something is difficult to read. For example: "The old man's handwriting was so small and smudged that I could hardly read it."
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Many can hardly read.
"They can hardly read or write.
Would you believe it, she can hardly read and write.
Valerie, truly, I can hardly read and write.
Teenagers who can hardly read English speak confidently of futures as nurses, architects or chemists.
He can hardly read or write, he puts all his wits into just surviving from day to day".
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Fanny Fern's books can hardly be read today, the sparkle has effevesced.
So frenetic that its subject can hardly be read, it has the slam-bang quality of violent comic strip drawing.
In light of the constitutional guarantee to States of a "Republican Form of Government," Article IV, Section 4, Article II can hardly be read to invite this court to disrupt a state's republican regime.
And leaving aside the disasters of colonialism, war and totalitarianism of the last two centuries, the nation building projects of liberal democracies can hardly be read as uniquely progressive philosophies.
Yet his book can hardly be read as an apology for CCP rule--in stark contrast to Jacques, who blithely informs us that Chinese culture regards "paternalism" as "a desirable and necessary characteristic of government".
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com