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Re: So, one of my High Ranks are very clever

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LordHyx is not online. LordHyx
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09 Dec 2012 12:40 AM
he created ISOEARLIER, He plans on stalking ISO and bothering him.
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SirBackspace is not online. SirBackspace
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09 Dec 2012 12:41 AM
is*
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flameboy45 is not online. flameboy45
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09 Dec 2012 12:41 AM
very clever of him

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LordHyx is not online. LordHyx
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09 Dec 2012 12:42 AM
Is would be if I said

A high rank of mine IS very clever


However, I addressed all of them when saying one of my High Ranks are


High rank is

High ranks is

vs

High ranks are

High rank are
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SirBackspace is not online. SirBackspace
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09 Dec 2012 12:46 AM
The word is is the third-person, present-tense singular form of the English copula to be . The word are is the present-tense form of to be in the second person singular and in all plural forms.

The building is old. (third person singular present)
You are old. (second person singular and plural present)
We are old. (first person plural present)
They are old. (third person plural present)
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LordHyx is not online. LordHyx
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09 Dec 2012 12:48 AM
High ranks happens to fall under the category of third person plural person.
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gyromatic4 is not online. gyromatic4
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09 Dec 2012 12:55 AM
"One of my high ranks" is singling out an individual person.
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LordHyx is not online. LordHyx
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09 Dec 2012 12:56 AM
High ranks is plural
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gyromatic4 is not online. gyromatic4
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09 Dec 2012 12:58 AM
One of my high ranks is singular.

If you said "my high ranks are very clever" that would have been fine, but you put the full-blown "one of my high ranks..." line. Following your logic would also mean one would say "You is a good writer", because "you" is used in a singular manner.

But we don't say you is, just like we don't say he/she are.
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froylin3 is not online. froylin3
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09 Dec 2012 01:05 AM
Clever
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LordHyx is not online. LordHyx
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09 Dec 2012 01:06 AM
"following your logic"

I said High Ranks was plural,


You is not plural.
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moosefish is not online. moosefish
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09 Dec 2012 01:08 AM
Well i have an alt Named VirginTheory
I win
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gyromatic4 is not online. gyromatic4
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09 Dec 2012 01:12 AM
If you're just talking about the general use of "high ranks", then yea, it's plural. The way you used it in the title, and what was subsequently fixed, is "one of my high ranks". Regardless of intention behind the statement (short of premeditated confusion), you isolated a member of your high ranks, a single member, and the adjective following should emulate that isolation and stand in the singular tense.
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