sing

«sing» in Mova's school dictionary: to make music with your voice, using words or tunes — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (sing, sings, sang, singing, sung)

meaning for a pupil

1) To sing means to make music with your voice, using words or tunes. tree →

2) Birds sing when they make musical calls. tree →

3) Things like a kettle or the wind can «sing» when they make a high, musical sound. tree →

4) To sing someone's praises means to praise them a lot. tree →

sense in the lessons

In music lessons you sing songs, notes and rounds; in stories singing shows happiness or celebration. Phrases: «sing along», «sing a song», «sing in a choir», «sing out of tune», «sing Happy Birthday», «sing to sleep».

examples

• We sing in the school choir. tree →
• She sang «Happy Birthday» to her dad. tree →
• The birds were singing in the morning. tree →
• Can you sing along to this song? tree →
• He has sung in three concerts. tree →
• Mum sang the baby to sleep. tree →
• The kettle began to sing on the stove. tree →
• My teacher always sings our praises. tree →

note

Irregular: sing – sang – sung (I sang yesterday; I have sung). Trap: «singed» is the past of «singe» (burn lightly), not of sing. A singer is a person who sings. «Sing» and «song»: you sing a song.

In the corpora

• They share memories, sing or pray, and then the body is buried or cremated.
• One mimed song on a TV show, where many performers mime, does not prove a singer cannot sing.
• Nerves make breath short and the voice shaky, even in good singers; slow breathing before singing helps calm the voice.
• Harmony means singing different notes at the same time that sound good together.
• Singing with a sore throat can strain the voice and make it worse; singers rest, drink water and avoid shouting.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.