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What is the rule for using in or on in a sentence?

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You cannot put an object "in" something that has no space for something to be "in". For example: Wrong: I put the towel in the table. (There is no way to put something "in" the wood of a table.)Right: I put the towel on the table.


To put something "on" another object/person it must indicate something outside of it.

Wrong: I put my coat in the hook. (There is no way to put a coat "in" a hook.)

Right: I put my coat on the hook.


I put the clean pan on the stove. I put the dirty pan in the sink.

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