Removing a part in a clip in iMovie '11?

Hello there! I was just finishing up a video, and I noticed a slight mistake in my voicing during my recording of the video. I wanted to remove it, and it was small, but there's no hope. It just deletes the whole clip, making me undo it, and making me clueless. Can someone help so I can get this on the web? Thanks!
~AppleFan17

To remove part of a clip, select the frames you want to delete by dragging. Then EDIT/DELETE SELECTION or right-click the selection and choose Delete Selection.
If however, you want to keep the video, but mute the audio for the clip, you can select the frames that you want to mute, and then drag the volume slider in the waveforms view to zero.
Alternatively, you could select the frames you want to mute, then right-click/Split Clip. The open the audio inspector and move the volume slider to zero.

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