Sparklesdust
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Apologies for this post. I just don't understand why the following is considered correct:
You might have noticed a new face in the Payroll team. Amy Smith is interning with us as she is interested in this area of work.
I accept that it's correct, but I just don't know why. Perhaps somebody could help me understand why.
I've tried to break everything down:
the Payroll team = compound noun
Amy Smith = Subject
is interning = verbal phrase (?)
with = preposition
us = pronoun
this = adjective
area = noun
I understand that the writer has used "this area of work" instead of repeating Payroll, but Payroll isn't a noun by itself in the first sentence, is it? "The Payroll team" is a compound noun (I think). "The Payroll team" isn't an "area of work", "Payroll is an area of work". If I read the second sentence like this, it wouldn't say what the reader intended: Amy Smith is interning with us as she is interested in the Payroll team.
If someone would explain things to me, I would be eternally grateful. Thank you.
You might have noticed a new face in the Payroll team. Amy Smith is interning with us as she is interested in this area of work.
I accept that it's correct, but I just don't know why. Perhaps somebody could help me understand why.
I've tried to break everything down:
the Payroll team = compound noun
Amy Smith = Subject
is interning = verbal phrase (?)
with = preposition
us = pronoun
this = adjective
area = noun
I understand that the writer has used "this area of work" instead of repeating Payroll, but Payroll isn't a noun by itself in the first sentence, is it? "The Payroll team" is a compound noun (I think). "The Payroll team" isn't an "area of work", "Payroll is an area of work". If I read the second sentence like this, it wouldn't say what the reader intended: Amy Smith is interning with us as she is interested in the Payroll team.
If someone would explain things to me, I would be eternally grateful. Thank you.