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Sang-heui, Kim
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Dear Teacher

Next sentence is ungrammatical?

I found to read this book difficult.

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Yes. It should read

I found this book difficult to read.

I found it difficult to read this book.

or

I found reading this book difficult.

The first is the most commonly used construction.
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