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Hi there,Which one is correct?(which / What) elementary did you study?(Which/ what ) high school are studying at?Thanks

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

When there are a limited number of known choices use which, when large number of unknown choices use what.

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'Which' is more formal than 'what' and tends to be used for choices. If you are asking informally about a specific thing, you can use 'what': e.g. 'what high school are you studying at?'. In your example, it looks as though you are missing 'school' after elementary. To make this question make sense you would need to write 'At which elementary school did you study?' However, this is quite a clumsy way of putting it, so I'd suggest changing it to: 'Where did you go to elementary school?'. Similarly, your second question needs to be changed to: 'Which high school are you studying at?'

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