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carries a tune

carries a tune is the third-person singular simple present indicative of carry a tune.

Meaning of carry a tune

Verb

carry a tune (third-person singular simple present carries a tune, present participle carrying a tune, simple past and past participle carried a tune)

  1. To produce music, especially to sing, with accurate relative pitch.
    • Jenny is named for a singer and Fanny for a beautiful dancer, but mother says they're both misfits, for Jenny can't carry a tune and Fanny's kind of stiff-legged.1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 1, in Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm

Questions about carries a tune

What is carries a tune the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Carries a tune is the third-person singular simple present indicative of carry a tune.

Words near carries a tune in the dictionary

  1. carriers
  2. carriership
  3. carrierships
  4. carries
  5. carries a torch
  6. carries a tune
  7. carries all before one
  8. carries away
  9. carries coals to Newcastle
  10. carries conviction
  11. carries corn

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