Maybe this will clear up the confusion somewhat.
Wikipedia: Primates
Unfortunately, the cladogram is not an image so I couldn't figure out how to post just the cladogram, so you will just have to go to the page.
The common names are noted on the right side of the chart and include monkeys, lesser apes, great apes and humans.
They are saying that to be consistent, everything that shares a common ancestor with Simiiformes should be called "monkeys" since old world and new world monkeys are at the base of that clade, so monkeys are paraphyletic. And everything that shares a common ancestor with Hominidae should be called "great apes" but they aren't, we called humans "humans", so apes are also paraphyletic.
It is the traditional terminology that makes the clade paraphyletic.
So I would say this: Humans are not monkeys or apes, they are "humans." They are however, in the clade Hominidae which also
includes the great apes. They are also in the clade Simiiformes which
includes the monkeys, lesser apes and great apes. They are also in the clade Primates, etc.,
HBD
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