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I know that しょくじします means "to have a meal". I have trouble understanding the
bolded sentence in the following text:

> たたみのへやでしごとをします。 **しょくじもします。**

Does it mean that the person also has meals in a tatami room? Is it normal to
"insert" the も particle like that between the noun and する?
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Inserting も inside a suru verb
As @jarmanso7 points out, you can always replace an を (or a が) with a も.

I think part of the confusion might be that the も-less example the OP
offers/is familiar with doesn't have an を. しょくじをします and しょくじします are both
possible, and are closely related, though there are many who would consider
the latter to be a sort of verb in its own right, whereas the former is
"doing" a meal. Perhaps like "Partaking of a meal", vs "dining". If this
perspective is comfortable for you, then I'd suggest that the も is replacing
the を of the former, making it akin to "Partaking also in meals" (or "also
takes meals there").

The suggestion that も is "inserted" between noun and verb is a little
problematic, because normally you don't have a noun and a verb in the same
sentence without some sort of particle after the noun. In casual situations of
course, particles are often dropped, but technically this wouldn't be quite
grammatical I believe. する-verb nouns are the notable exceptions (so is a noun
with the copula です, but you could argue that です isn't 100% a verb in function,
even if it is one grammatically), because there the noun+する combination may be
considered a complete verb (but is kind of a gray area of sorts).

And of course, in those casual instances I mentioned where a particle might be
dropped (さかなたべる？) if you wanted to use a も, you _would_ just slip it in
"between the noun and the verb" (or to be more accurate: after the noun,
regardless of what else might be between the noun and the verb).
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