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Supercat Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Billing queries?

The maker I'm working for has service desk. They say that it "bills queries".
What's this and what do they do?
  

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What's this and what do they do? They answer questions about invoices and invoicing—customer complaints about those, mostly, I suppose.

  • What's this and what do they do?
  • They answer questions about invoices and invoicing—customer complaints about those, mostly, I suppose.
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Supercat"bills queries".What's this and what do they do?
They answer questions about invoices and invoicing—customer complaints about those, mostly, I suppose.
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SupercatThey say that it "bills queries".
That is unnatural to me. 'Bills' is a noun, and I would expect "They call it 'Bills queries'".
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Thank you! Yes, the service desk they call must be almost equal to helpdesk. I forgot details, though the sentence is listing jobs covered by the service desk. As far as I remember it says: FAQ, customer complaints, and "billing queries".
(I remember it says billing queries, so sorry 5JJ that the question lacks information.)
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fivejedjonThey call it 'Bills queries'"
'Billing' or 'bill' in AmE. We don't pluralize the noun as adjective.
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It's the same in BrE. I missed that. Emotion: embarrassed

ps. I consider 'Bill' to me a noun functioning as a modifier there, not an a
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fivejedjonnoun functioning as a modifier there, not an adjective.
What's the difference between that and my 'noun as adjective'?
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Aw aw, it's written as "billing queries" (gerund + queries). I guess the writer is listing, so he needs to make it into a noun phrase.
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Mr M,

It's not important for someone learning to communicate in English. For a student of grammar/linguistics, it is important to distinguish between form and function. Both nouns and adjectives can function as modifiers of nouns. On/y adjectives can be moddied by adverbs such as 'very' (*very bill) or have comparative/superlative forms ('biller/*billest, *more/*most bill

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