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Should it be: Students ON elementary level OR Student at elementary level.

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It's helpful to see the full sentence. In the US, we'd probably say "at" but "elementary level" requires an article.

Can you re-write it as "elementary-level students"?

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It's helpful to see the full sentence. In the US, we'd probably say "at" but "elementary level" requires an article.

Can you re-write it as "elementary-level students"?

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Would it work with students on/at elementary level?

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You need an article, as I said before.

Students at the elementary level...
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Would it work with students on/at the elementary level?

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You'll need to finish the sentence first. What's the verb?
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Would it work with students on/at the elementary level? - this is the whole sentence, I'm asking somebody a question
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