Labeling An Earthworm

I thought this thread was settled five years ago, but: As I found myself doing when I worked for a short stretch in the UK, ex-pats often pick up European usage. label /ˈleɪbl/ verb (labels, labelling, labelled; US labels, labeling, labeled) 1 attach a label to. 2 assign to a category, especially inaccurately. 3 Biology & Chemistry make (a substance, cell, etc.) identifiable using a label ...

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@gengo I see "mention" as the main verb and "be" as an auxiliary verb in "it can also be mentioned". Am I wrong? I'm not that good at labeling grammatical parts, so I can't be sure. Maybe I'm the one who is wrong.

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There's a whole lot of difference between the two; Not knowing something and rejecting it or labeling it. Worth noting we are dealing with slang words, the name speaks for itself.

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Hola, Lautaro. Just a problem in terminology (= labeling of tenses). Hope you don't mind. "We have been receiving", definitely. The construction is just like that of the present perfect: Verb to have + past participle (third column) but a gerund present participle is added. In the other case you are using two gerunds present participles. GS

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But I wouldn't rely on instinct or intuition to start labeling things as "incorrect," certainly not in a grammar forum, and certainly not when it comes to prepositions. After all, a native speaker said "no" to the use of " at the parking lot," while another native speaker disagreed.

An earthworm is a soil -dwelling terrestrial invertebrate that belongs to the phylum Annelida. The term is the common name for the largest members of the class (or subclass, depending on the author) Oligochaeta.

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