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Teo Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

In/on/at there

The water ____ was blue and clean.
(A) there
(B) in there
(C) on there
(C) at there

There is no context to the above question. The answer is option A. What about the acceptability of the other options?

  

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Teo What about the acceptability of the other options? Teo (B) in there Less likely, but perfectly possible. It means something different from A, which means that the water at that location was blue and clean.

— Anonymous

  • Teo What about the acceptability of the other options?
  • Teo (B) in there Less likely, but perfectly possible.
  • It means something different from A, which means that the water at that location was blue and clean.
  • " Teo (C) on there "On there" strikes me as unidiomatic in this context.
  • Teo (C) at there Unidiomatic.
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TeoWhat about the acceptability of the other options?
Teo (B) in there

Less likely, but perfectly possible. It means something different from A, which means that the water at that location was blue and clean. Option B means that the water within something was blue and clean, for example, "The filthy water at the foot of

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The water ____ was blue and clean.
(A) there
(B) in there
(C) on there
(D) at there

There is no context to the above question. The answer is option A. What about the acceptability of the other options?

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