A few days ago

Prepositions and Conjunctions?

How can you tell if a word is a subordinating conjuction or preposition if it is considered to be both?

Example: since

This is considered to be a preposition and subordinating conjunction. In a sentence, how would you know which one it is?

Thank You!

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A few days ago

Bruce

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A subordinating conjunction introduces a subordinating clause, e.g., “Since I moved to Florida . . .”

A preposition introduces a prepositional phrase, e.g., “Since August . . .”

A clause will have a subject and predicate, but a phrase will only have a noun as object of the preposition.

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Cheers,

Bruce

A few days ago

Anonymous

i think it depends on the location

like if since was at the beginning of a sentence that would be subordinating

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