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Xinfu
November 24, 2015, 09:02 PM
15/11/24 A
-[...] found a vest without a detonator in a pile of rubble in the southern edge of Paris.

What does edge mean? I am not sure, because my teacher many decades ago told me, with edge, only at is used, never in.

Rusty
November 25, 2015, 04:26 AM
Both 'at' and 'in' work.
edge = border/boundary

Xinfu
November 25, 2015, 06:08 AM
Excellent answer. Thank you.
Could we also use on in that sentence based on

-a big house on/at the edge of town

Rusty
November 25, 2015, 06:22 AM
Yes.

Xinfu
November 26, 2015, 08:43 AM
Excellent answer. Thank you.