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Simply using the word 'conjunction' is enough to take you back to Thursday afternoon English lessons and trying to pass out using the force of your mind.
Just in case you still want to know what conjunctions and prepositions are, a conjunction simply links one clause to another while a preposition links a clause to a noun. Clear?
Prepositions (60 of them including of, in, to, with, as, at, for, on by...)
Everyone gets hung up about them.
They link part of a sentence to its noun.
If you 'strand' a preposition then you're condemned to grammar hell (Which house did you arrive at?), although an editor's attempts to avoid preposition stranding supposedly made Winston Churchill scribble 'This is the sort of English up with which I will not put'.
Conjunctions (joining two clauses)
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
The operation was a success before the patient died.
None of this is terribly important when writing copy for business, except for differences of opinion over starting a sentence with 'and' or 'but'. I'm personally in favour of this. But very sparingly. And only if you feel it adds impact.
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