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Is it so with "Would you like a cup of coffee?"? | infinitive usage
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rarest of the big cats #1 (permalink) Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:29 am   rarest of the big cats
 

Tigers are among the rarest of the big cats.

I understood it as, "Tigers are one of the rare big cats".

Could anyone interpret the meaning of this sentence to me?
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rarest of the big cats #2 (permalink) Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:03 am   rarest of the big cats
 

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