in/on the handout

Both, but 'in' wins it by a nose, in my opinion.

You should use "in." The sentence will be in the text printed on the handout. In my never humble opinion, you should use "in." Lordy wears ladies' undergarments and howls at the moon.

Yarooooooooooooo-ooooo!

<rustle rustle>

You may as well have not asked, WB. Have Lordy and set cleared things up for you with their buffoonery?

OP:

-In/On the handout given to us, there is a sentence:...

The handout is in paper form, which preposition should I use?

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Set: The sentence will be in the text printed on the handout.

I'm not sure that that's what triggers 'in' but then I'm also not sure that it doesn't.

I think that 'in' occurs because something is contained within the pages of a book, magazine, multi leaf handout, etc.

If it was a single page handout,


-On the handout given to us, there is a sentence:...

Thank you~

Setanta: You should use "in." The sentence will be in the text printed on the handout.
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I never even noticed til now, "printed ON the handout".

Thank you~

we say

-She is always in the news.
-I saw it on the news.

So what should I use?:

-On/In (the) BBC news, there are occasionally sentence structures not recorded in dictionaries.

WB: Thank you~

we say

-She is always in the news.
-I saw it on the news.

So what should I use?:

-On/In (the) BBC news, there are occasionally sentence structures not recorded in dictionaries.
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CONTEXT CONTEXT CONTEXT, WB! Consider what you are talking about - viewing tv or looking at transcripts.

um...listening to BBC programmes/watching them.

WB: um...listening to BBC programmes/watching them.

It seems you already know. You wrote:

we say

-She is always in the news.
-I saw it on the news.

You mean ON the news?

But IN sounds equally good.

Depends on the CONTEXT, WB.

um...for


-On/In (the) BBC news, there are occasionally sentence structures not recorded in dictionaries.

When do I need THE? When not?

You can't do this with isolated sentences, WB. Language doesn't exist in the isolation of a grammar book.
As i have mentioned time and again- CONTEXT!