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0 that sentence doesn't make much sense. At the end of the back row makes sense, but not the other way round... 0-

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0Still makes no sense to me, sorry. Maybe someone else can help, maybe its a Brit/US English confusion here....0-

0 I agree with you Nona. If it said "at the back of the far-right column" - I could even accept, I guess - "at the back of the end column" but the way it's written makes no sense me either. Aren't they ALL at the back if they are in the end row? 0-

0I would say it's ambiguous, but not meaningless. I think one might well use the term "row" to refer not only to a row of seats going across the classroom (the front row, the back row and all the rows in between) but also to a line of seats going the other way, from front to back. (The row by the windows, the row by the doors, and all the rows in between -- what you might prefer to call "colum

0 Oh I suppose so, I just always think of rows going across rather than up and down...a matter of perspective I suppose. It would be quite unusual to use row in that sense though. 0-

0That's a valiant effort, Khoff--even just setting up the type in the post window.02br
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00I'd sooner believe, however, that it is a publisher's typo (it happens, even in a book on English), reversing the order of 01i00back02i00 and 01i00end.02i02br
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00There's only a single entry on Google for "back of the e

1i00Common sense suggests that ‘Row” is always horizontal; typically from left to right. That much, I think we’d agree.02i02br
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01i00Based on the text, “The boy02i01b01i00 at the back of the end row is Stephen”, I tend agree with Nona that it’s not making much sense, or least it’s ambiguous. If the sentence means what I thin

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01cite10Teo12cite10 11b11i10the boy at the back of the end row12i12b12blockquote

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0 Ok we believe you it's in there Teo, but we still don't agree with it. Books are written by humans, edited by humans, typesett by humans and proofread by humans. Human error sometimes creeps in. I think the two words are accidentally transposed. 0-