有一读者问: 高中课本第一册上有这样一句话:
(1)He rang up all his friends in the pop world including all the most famous pop stars.
在此句中,including是介词还是动名词或现在分词?
这种including是介词或是现在分词,但绝非动名词。不少人仍将它看作现在分词,如有些词典并不将它单独列为一个词条。但当今已有不少学者认为它是一个介词。具有权威性的《英语语法大全》(A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language )则将including唤作“边缘介词”。《牛津现代高级英语学习词典》(Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English )不但单独将including列作介词,而且举了一个很有趣的富有说服力的例子如下:
(2)Sales up to and including last month amounted to £10,000.
这里的including正是和up to并列,同是介词。
