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Is there an official (or at least generally accepted) source for an exhaustive list of all English conjunctions, pronouns, and/or prepositions? I find such lists of various blog sites and Wikipedia, but I am wondering if there is a source maintained by a more reliable authority. Thank you!

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I would suggest taking a look at this site: grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar – Carlo_R. Jun 19 '12 at 18:43
What do you mean by "more reliable authority"? I don't think there exists an exhaustive list, but I don't think its as much as impossible to make one yourself. Did you try OED? You will easily find ~400 prepositions/conjunction. You will have to collate the data yourself, someone will always come up with something new almost every time, keep noting them down. – Fr0zenFyr Jun 19 '12 at 19:24
@Fr0zenFyr: My first thought was "Dictionary" as well, but I think the O.P. wants a dictionary sorted by parts of speech, rather than by alphabetical order of word. – J.R. Jun 19 '12 at 20:18

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