Let's look at some examples. The car drives beautifully. The window broke. The plane flew north. The boat sailed south. When a verb behaves like that, it is called an ergative verb. Wikipedia has listed some of these by category: "Verbs suggesting a change of state —break, burst, form, heal, melt, tear, transform Verbs of cooking — bake, boil, cook, fry Verbs of movement — move, shake, sweep, turn, walk Verbs involving vehicles — drive, fly, reverse, run, sail" For more information, please just search the internet for "ergative verbs".

I don't think that would be correct. If you're meaning it in a way like "The sentence reads better if written like..." then that would make sense however you would want to say "It reads better if written like this". Just make sure that the people you are speaking to know what "It" is. That is my best guess,hope I helped some.