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"supposed to be reading" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is often used to indicate that someone is expected or obligated to be reading something. Here is an example: "I was supposed to be reading my textbook for class, but I got distracted by my phone."
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I was supposed to be reading 101 Dalmatians with them.
You're not supposed to be reading 'Naked Lunch' at 11, 'Doors of Perception,' by Huxley.
"When I was in college and we were supposed to be reading 'Beowulf,' I was reading Stephen King," she said.
I kept dipping into these books when I was supposed to be reading Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel.
New, seamless video conferencing technology and businesses keen to save staff time and company money were supposed to be reading the last rites to business travel, especially flights.
"My girlfriend was supposed to be reading the other lines but she was laughing too much so I just had to leave pauses where necessary.
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Even the Miranda warnings, which are supposed to be read to a suspect beore interrogation, seem to suggest that there is "something inherently unstable and unreliable about the speech-act of confession," Mr. Brooks writes.
The second condition is supposed to be read as distinct from acting against the consent of an agent.
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