The water in/on/at there was blue and clean

The water ____ was blue and clean.
(A) there
(B) in there
(C ) on there
(D) at there

There is no context to the above question. The answer is option A. What about the acceptability of the other options?

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‘In there’ would work too if we were talking about something like a cave or a tunnel. I don’t see how ‘on there’ or ‘at there’ could work. Where did you find this exercise and why are not using ours instead?

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To me, it looks like defective question, Torsten. As you have observed, two answers there and in there are possible.

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I agree with Torsten and Anglophile.

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