If I am on the phone and the call hasn't been

[tufguy]

If I am on the phone and the call hasn't been answered as yet and it is cutting in and out and I have to tell my supervisor that this is happening then what should I say?

1) The call is cutting in and out.

2) We have bad connection.

3) Call is breaking up.

4) The connection is intermittent.

 

[emsr2d2]

If I am on the phone, and the call hasn't been answered as yet, and it the line is cutting in and out, and I have to tell how should I express this to my supervisor? that this is happening then what should I say?

1) The call line is cutting in and out.
2) We have a bad connection.
3) The call is breaking up.
4) The connection is intermittent.

Note my corrections above. I've made them all grammatically correct. My preference is for #1. I wouldn't use #2 because "we" don't have anything. At the moment, you're the only person on the phone. You could use "I" there, though. I wouldn't call it a "call" until someone answers (in this context) so #3 doesn't work. #4 is OK but we usually describe a problem as intermittent, not the thing that has the problem. For example, "There's an intermittent fault on this line".

Please take a long, hard look at your original main sentence. It contained 37 words, four instances of "and", and no punctuation apart from the final question mark. Given all the years you've been on this forum, I'm staggered you're still writing so poorly.

 

[Skrej]

If I am on the phone and the call hasn't been answered as yet and it is cutting in and out and I have to tell my supervisor that this is happening then what should I say?

Logically though, if the call hasn't been answered, how do you know that it's cutting in and out?

Or, if you're on the phone, then how can the call not yet be answered?

 

[emsr2d2]

To be fair, I'd say I was on the phone if I was making an outgoing call and it was ringing but hadn't yet been answered. If the sound of the ringing is cutting in and out, there's clearly a problem.