Including is never a preposition, any more than its near synonyms containing, comprising and embracing are. It is the -ing form of the verb include, sometimes known as the present participle. Thus, a free CD is not the complement of the preposition including, but the object of the non-finite verb including. –

Jun 26, 2022 · The present participle phrase ("including improved cardiovascular health") modifies a phrase ("the benefits of exercise") from which it is separated by an entire predicate ("are vast"). People use terms such as "misplaced modifier" and "extraposition" for this issue. We can take care of it quite simply:

Oct 1, 2013 · The comma before including shows that a new clause, even if it’s a non-finite clause, is to follow, and the comma before but and after to, indicates a weak interruption to that clause. The comma between running and jumping shows that the two are to be read as part of a list, but no comma is required after jumping , because and makes it ...

Dec 10, 2014 · In fact, the word including appears 354 times in the report (although some 40-odd of those are duplicates) I have listed below the 65 examples of " to include " (the figure in the parentheses is the page number of the PDF - rather than the page number of the sub-document contained within the PDF):

Aug 28, 2014 · It could mean either "up to and including", or "strictly before". Which meaning it had in a specific context would depend upon the conventions governing that context, which can and do differ. Which meaning it had in a specific context would depend upon the conventions governing that context, which can and do differ.

Mar 3, 2014 · All of us, including me, have made mistakes. It is not have that determines the case of the first person pronoun here but including, which always takes me. Not to compare with 'I have made mistakes'; but ask 'including whom?' --> Objective case. However, with I, we could say, All of us, I included, have made mistakes. With myself, as with me,

Mar 21, 2013 · It requires a comma because including is the subordinating conjunction for the dependent clause. Notice that if you DON'T put a comma there, you are essentially qualifying the moral issues upon which he has written as only those that include poverty ("moral issues including poverty"), in which case "globalization, and euthanasia" becomes one of two things: either a …

Jul 27, 2018 · "Including myself" may be correct depending how pedantic or prescriptive you want to be. In my opinion a strict rule of grammar shouldn't preclude us in using speech to have as many subtleties as possible, and "Including myself" has a tone of emphasis to it, as for example it may carry a meaning of "me too/me also".

Mar 4, 2012 · Several different users can change their own passwords, including administrators and normal users. No users are allowed to change their own passwords; including both administrators and normal users. Corruption was uncovered at many levels across the organization, including administrators and normal users.

Jun 17, 2015 · If you remove including the staff from the sentence then you would obviously use "is". Since including the staff is somewhat separate to the main clause its purpose is little more than to add detail and so the sentence's syntax should be the same as if it were Everyone is required to wear shoes. TL;DR - Use "is".