Preposition use

[acracia]

What is correct?

The child is in the river.

or

The child is on the river.

 

[Anglika]

Re: using in, on, at

Both, dpending on context.

If the child is in the water, it is in the river

If the child is in a boat, it is on the river.

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[euncu]

This is the second thread you have started for the same question.
Please, stick to your thread until your question is answered. If nobody seems to anwer, ask again on the very same thread and do not start a new one.

 

[Anglika]

This is the second thread you have started for the same question.
Please, stick to your thread until your question is answered. If nobody seems to anwer, ask again on the very same thread and do not start a new one.

Acrually she locked onto an old thread, so I moved hers into a new thread.