at the 3-storey building or in the 3-storey building.

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Kamshing

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1) They stood at the veranda at 2nd floor at the 3-storey building.

2) They stood at the veranda at 2nd floor in the 3-storey building.

Dear teachers, please teach me which sentence is correct. At the 3-storey building or in the 3-storey building.

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Neither correct. There would not be a veranda on a second floor. There are also problems with your prepositions.
 
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How about:

They stood on the balcony on the 2nd floor of the 3-storey building.
 

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"They stood on the balcony/terrace on the 2nd floor of the 3-storey building."
 

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You could also use "They stood on the balcony of the second floor of the three-storey building.
 

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It is "story" in AmE.
 
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Context is important here. The building might have more than one balcony on the second floor, so we would have to start with a balcony/terrace. A building will have only one second floor, so the is correct there, but again, we have no basis for understanding which 3-story building we mean, so back to a three story building:

We stand
on a balcony.
A balcony is
of a building unit.
A building unit is
on a certain storey (or story, or floor).

They stood on a balcony on the 2nd floor of a 3-storey building.
 
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Dear teachers,

balcony is best described here and not veranda. Thank you for correcting this word for me.
 
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