of the dinner knife. if so, the outside one is for eating the fish course, and the inside one is for salad. if fish is served as a separate course, you are probably at a continental restaurant that will also serve the salad at the end of the meal instead of at the beginning. that’s why the salad fork may be on the inside in this case. you use the forks from left to right during the meal.
also on the outside, because it may be used during a early course of the meal is the soup spoon, on the far right. there may already be a soup bowl sitting on 