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facing
I would like to know the subject of "face" in the next sentence.
Underemployment is a broad measure of the labor market opportunities facing workers.
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Re: facing
This is an interesting question.
"Underemployment is a broad measure of the labor market opportunities facing workers." can be rephrased to "Underemployment is a broad measure of the labor market opportunities faced by workers."
In the end, workers face underemployment, not the other way around.
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Re: facing

Originally Posted by
wowenglish1
I would like to know the subject of "face" in the next sentence.
Underemployment is a broad measure of the labor market opportunities facing workers.
(NOT a teacher) Perhaps the subject of "face" is "the labor market opportunities." The complete sentence may be: Underemployment is a broad measure of the labor market opportunities (that are) facing workers. ("that" = relative pronoun that refers to "the labor market opportunities.")
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