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Englishuser Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

in a ward vs. on a ward

Hi,

Which one is correct, in your opinion?

1. There were fifteen men on a ward.

2. There were fifteen men in a ward.
  

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I think it's in, even if here Dickens's talking about beds:

The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles - Chapter 40
There are sixty beds in a ward; and the bolt's on, sixteen hours out of the four-and-twenty.' 'I would rather go to some other place of co

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