Talk:including
<including> as a preposition should not be deleted. <including> is a simple preposition, sometimes also further classified as an -ing preposition. <including> as a preposition appears in multiple dictionaries:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/including https://www.thefreedictionary.com/including https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/including
LinguisticsGirl.Librarian (talk) 16:19, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
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@DCDuring Please provide reasoning, seeing you tagged this. — surjection ⟨?⟩ 13:39, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
- Though I tagged it only 6 months ago, I don't remember why. It might have been a visceral dislike for the subsense. I've removed the tag. DCDuring (talk) 13:46, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
2. Conjunction: and in addition[edit]
as well as: Discussion of the market analysis - including whether it was skewed in favor of launching the project - went on for an hour. Backinstadiums (talk) 17:30, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Backinstadiums: Although that is a possible parse, you should consider other words like "comprising", "comprehending" which are just the same, and not traditionally regarded as conjunctions. Equinox ◑ 17:33, 12 December 2022 (UTC)