Is the word "however" a conjunction or a preposition? I have been using the word "however" for years to begin sentences, and I was horrified, when I recently read on a web site that the word was a conjunction. Knowing that I have started countless sentences on the "ScaRatings" with "However", I began to worry what liljol would post on the "Ban the Person Above You" thread, if he ever found this out.
I can now relax, "however" is both a conjunction and a preposition. You just have to make sure that you place a comma after it when you use it as a preposition. Phew, I'm pretty sure that every time I've used "However" as a preposition at the beginning of a sentence, that all of them are followed by a comma.
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/educat ... t-or-wrongIt gets a whole lot more complicated, but I'm not getting into it. I'm just happy to know that what I've been doing is an acceptable by the rules of the English language.
p.s. Damn, the English language is pretty darn complicated.