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JungKim Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Usage of 'sing'

This usage of 'sing' I'm not too familiar with: ....a karaoke scene which starts off with a Japanese man singing the closing bar to "This Love"

Please explain.
  

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Hi, It's a common kind of sentence. You can think of it in two slightly expanded ways. ) Clive

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Hi,

It's a common kind of sentence. You can think of it in two slightly expanded ways.

....a karaoke scene which starts off with a Japanese man's singing the closing bar to "This Love"

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I'm guessing you mean "closing bar". A bar of music is a short section of a song, technically the number of beats in the top of the time signature. It is called a bar because it is marked on sheet music with a vertical line at the beginning and end.
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enoonI'm guessing you mean "closing bar". A bar of music is a short section of a song, technically the number of beats in the top of the time signature. It is called a bar because it is marked on sheet music with a vertical line at the beginning and end.
enoon, thanks!
You're right about me not understanding the meaning of "closing bar".
One further
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Clive(You are asking about the structure, are you not?)
Hi Clive, thanks for your answer.
Unfortunately, I wasn't asking about it. But your response was helpful.
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JungKimIn the portion "the closing bar to This Love", the usage of the preposition to is okay?How about using of instead like "the closing bar of This Love"?
"Of" is usual, I'd say. "To" is often OK, too, but I would have used "of". If it had been the chorus or the intro or some other well-defined part, "to" would be better, but the closing bar is not such a p
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