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[Grammar] What is the right preposition?

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meeky

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Which is the right preposition to use (in or at) in this sentence:

Please sit at the back.
Please sit in the back.
 
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You sit in front, you sit at the back (not in the back).

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meeky said:
Which is the right preposition to use (in or at) in this sentence:

Please sit at the back.
Please sit in the back.
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You might have sat at the back of the classroom at school but sat in the back of the car on the way home after school.
 
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