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Old 24-Sep-2006, 13:45
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Default in the high school

In an article about members of a family I read this sentence:

She is 45 years old and teaches English and Czech in the high school.

Then, I have two questions for you (btw, should I just have written "for" or "on" you?)

1) why is just the preposition "in" used? Why not "at"?
2) Why did the narrator use definite article (in THE high school)? In the article, the school wasn't mentioned before and I believe there is not only one high school in a town. There are usually more of them - even if the town is quite small.


Could you please correct my English (which includes a correction of everything I've just written)?

Thanks.
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