"There used to be 5 people in my team. Now there are only 3". Is "IN my team" acceptable in this sentence, in American English? I mean, the preposition "IN"?

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Check out the difference here: "in" https://youglish.com/pronounce/in_my_team/english/us vs "on" https://youglish.com/pronounce/on_my_team/english/us

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You can use both on and in. 😊

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Google n-grams shows that "on my team" is much more common than "in my team" for American English, British English and English.

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https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=on+my+team%2C+in+my+team&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

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I'm not American, but I think it's fine. The only alternative I can think of is  'on my team'  but I prefer 'in'.

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