j3nnie wrote:Deliberately imitating the technique of Louis Armstrong, jazz singer Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened out the melodic contours of tunes, and, in effect, recomposed songs to suit her range, style, and artistic sensibilities.

A. Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened.
B. Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice in a similar way to how other musicians play instruments, in ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
C. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians played instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
D. Billie Holiday used her voice in the same way that other musicians use their instruments, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattening.
E. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians Instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.

[spoiler]: D[/spoiler][/i]

amitabhprasad wrote:I have one doubt regarding "D".
Looks like in "D" two clauses are compared but the conjunction used in "that ". I am not sure whether use of "that" is correct in this case.
In fact I see "E" as better alternative then "D", in "E" two nouns are compared using conjunction "like"

amitabhprasad wrote:Crap I missed that
Thanks buddy

j3nnie wrote:Deliberately imitating the technique of Louis Armstrong, jazz singer Billie Holiday�s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened out the melodic contours of tunes, and, in effect, recomposed songs to suit her range, style, and artistic sensibilities.

A. Billie Holiday�s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened.

[spoiler]: D[/spoiler][/i]