The baby is pressing on me.

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A baby is on daddy. "The baby is pressing on me."
A coke is on a vegetable in refrigerator. "The coke is press on the vegetable."

What is the correct word instead of pressing in sentences above.
 

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The second, but I would use "on top of the vegetable".
 

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Either way, Coke has a capital C.
 

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Generally, if you're talking about one specific vegetable - which I guess is the case, with Coke on it - it's far more common to call it what it is, say, a zucchini. Several different vegetables, you call "vegetables". We would rarely say of one, "Bring me the vegetable; add the vegetable, etc."
 
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