Waiting outside in the car? Or "around in the car"?

[Lolala]

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #82 "Prepositons", question 2

Barbara, your boyfriend is waiting for you ......... in the car.

(a) around
(b) outside
(c) above
(d) against

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #82 "Prepositons", answer 2

Barbara, your boyfriend is waiting for you outside in the car.

Correct answer: (b) outside
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in the car?

Lolala

[Englishmonkey]

I think the best way to figure this one out is to do it by deduction. That means try out all the words and eliminate the ones that don't make sense. If you do this, you can see that the only adjective that makes sense is outside.

[Mister Micawber]

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The speaker and Barbara are inside a house or other building.
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[Alan]

Hi,

Your question is about in the car. This simply means that they are sitting in the car. Possibly you are thinking of other types of transport like on the bus/on the ship/on the plane. In is used here for smaller methods of transport such as cars/taxis.

Alan
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[Seanmen]

Hi,

Can I say "waiting for you around in the car" to express the person who is in the car is not far away?

[Lost_Soul]

nope

you can be weither in the car or around the car

[Seanmen]

thanks,

btw, i like Butters too. hehe

[Yankee]

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Who or what is "Butters"?
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In the sentence, someone is speaking to Barbara. Barbara and the speaker are in a house or other building (as MM noted). Barbara's boyfriend is not in the house or building. He is outside the building. He is sitting in his car, probably waiting for Barbara to come out of the house and get in the car with him.
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[Lost_Soul]

[Seanmen]

hi guys,

what about "He is waiting for you around, in the car."?

[Yankee]

[Yankee]

[Seanmen]

thanks, Yankee/Amy.

[Dr. R. Saroj]

I will see him around in the office.

What is the correcet sense behind this sentence.

[Pamela]

Hi Dr. R. Saroj

Another way of saying is:
I will (regularly)meet him in the office.