"I read a book for two hours and fifteen minutes."

Translation: 我看了两个小时十五分钟的书。

[DarrylYong]

Agree. I think it should be 我看了书两个小时二十五分钟

[CharlesEva1]

It's not wrong per se, but this form stresses something a little different than "I read a book for 2 hours and fifteen minutes." It's more like, "I spent 2 hours and fifteen minutes of my day reading." I wonder who designed this program.

[ZhangC1459]

Not a native speaker, that's for sure.

[zylian]

This doesn't look right.

[casparlant]

can someone explain this ‘的’?

[peter.st.m]

This is not right - should be 我两个小时十五分钟读书。

[Marcelo.Pardo]

我读了两小时十五分钟的书
Is the google's translate, looks similar.

[JPark2000]

读 is the literal translation, but 看 (to see) can also be used to mean read.

[em7ec]

Good lord, these exercises are all kinds of inconsistent about word order.

[Elaine564]

我两个小时五点分钟看书 or 我两个小时五点分钟看了书 if "read" is past tense?

[AkJyD8]

What's wrong with:

我两个小时十五分钟看了书

It follows the word order of: subject + time + verb + object, but it's marked as wrong

[bugwine]

that is such a weird sentence structure... -∆-;;

[wbeeman]

I don't understand the syntax of this sentence at all. Why is 的 used to link 书 to the length of time reading took place