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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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You're correct. If you totally ignore the context. One singular. One in four plural.
This is what you get when you learn grammar by repeating rules not actually thinking.
( , Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:31, Reply)

The context that one (a singular entity) out of four (a group of four, a plural) is obese. One of them is. Not one of them are. It's almost frighteningly simple and you aren't an actual retard so I know you're just winding me up and I'm not falling for it (any more).
( , Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:34, Reply)

( , Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:37, Reply)

They surveyed all of them and if you break them down into groups of four, out of that group of four one of them IS fat.
Now fuck off.
( , Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:40, Reply)

More likely a sample group, then the figures scaled up.
( , Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:44, Reply)

IF The four represents more than four.
THEN the one represents more than one.
THEREFORE plural
( , Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:40, Reply)

It's a statistical description, not a quantity.
Oh. ...quantities, I see the difficulty now.
( , Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:43, Reply)
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