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This question came up when answering tickets today at work. A client says they've been having one singular problem across multiple entries. How should I phrase my response?
"Which entries was this happening on?" or "What entries was this happening on?"
Neither of these sound right. Is the issue tense? i.e.:
"Which entries has this been happening on?"
I'm pretty sure 'which' should be correct because I'm asking for specific entries from a list.
What's the correct option here?
The awkwardness comes from splitting which/what and on.
Try: On which entries did this problem occur?
or, if you like the sound of it better: For which entries did this problem happen?
"Which" is better than "What" because you are asking about specific individual entries.
To my ear,
"Which entries did this happen with?" [for a discrete set of events]
or
"Which entries has this been happening with?" [for events occurring over an extended period]
are the most natural-sounding wordings.
