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Bubblebath Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Inspire A to B?

12 vintage recordings of traditional folk songs that inspired the soundtrack to the greatest British horror movie of our generation.
I can't get the meaning of the sentence, especially of the structure "inspired A to B".

I quote the sentence [url=http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/home.html]here[/url].
  

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Bubblebath that inspired the soundtrack to the greatest British horror movie of our generation. that inspired the soundtrack [that goes with / that is associated with] the greatest British horror movie .... to has the sense of which goes with, which belongs with (as a pair, usually).

— CalifJim

  • Bubblebath that inspired the soundtrack to the greatest British horror movie of our generation.
  • that inspired the soundtrack [that goes with / that is associated with] the greatest British horror movie ....
  • to has the sense of which goes with, which belongs with (as a pair, usually).
  • the key to the door the door to the garage the entrance to the building the combination to the safe the attachments to this vacuum cleaner the answer to the question my response to her letter Note that these expressions with to are often in the context of finding a smaller thing that goes with a bigger thing.
  • The smaller thing takes on the role of something missing (in a vague and broad sense) that must be supplied to complete the pair.
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Bubblebaththat inspired the soundtrack to the greatest British horror movie of our generation.
that inspired the soundtrack [that goes with / that is associated with] the greatest British horror movie ....


to has the sense of which goes with, which belongs with (as a pair, usually).

the key to the door
the door
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Note that these expressions with to are often in the context of finding a smaller thing that goes with a bigger thing. The smaller thing takes on the role of something missing (in a vague and broad sense) that must be supplied to complete the pair.
I see. So you use the expression like these: 1)"Where's the key to the door?" 2)"-What are you doing? -I'm finding the
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BubblebathAre these OK?
Yes. (You mean "looking for the lid".)

CJ
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