On 2010-04-11, at 11:10 PM, Herb wrote:

> The preposition system of Old, Middle, and Early Modern English was pretty simple.  Since 1700, however, our inventory of prepositions has mushroomed by perhaps a factor of eight, and choice of preposition is one of the hardest aspects of English for non-native speakers to master.

I'm curious to know what you include in the category of preposition. I'm pretty comfortable with the idea the most of the traditional "subordinating conjunctions" are actually prepositions with clausal complements and that many words traditionally analyzed as adverbs are also prepositions. I'd include in the category everything listed here:
<http://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Prepositions>

You?

Best,
Brett

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Brett Reynolds
English Language Centre
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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