[Grammar] 5-person team / 5 people

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mmabrouk

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Hello,

May I use person here instead of people ?

Maintainperformance evaluations for 5-person team of IT Department
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Maintainperformance evaluations for 5 poeple of IT Department[/FONT]
 

MikeNewYork

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Hello,

May I use person here instead of people ?

Maintain performance evaluations for a 5-person team in the IT Department
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Maintain performance evaluations for 5 people in the IT Department

See the corrections in red.
 

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I am not a teacher.

To try and answer your actual question, if it is really a team of five people as opposed to five unconnected individuals then you would say, 'a five-person team'.

If you are referring to five people amongst many others you could say, 'five people in the IT Department'.
 
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