preposition: [of/in] your generation

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preposition: [of/in] your generation

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I have made up two similar versions of the sentence below.

(1) People in your generation know how to speak two or more languages.

(2) People of your generation know how to speak two or more languages.

Which preposition is correct? Please help me. Thank you very much.
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Re: preposition: [of/in] your generation

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