This is a paper I wrote for a presentation at the Twin Cities STC (Society for Technical Communication) conference in 2001. I make the argument that using has become a preposition in English. I keep expecting to see the new designation in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) but not so far. Dr. Walter Turner has pointed out that having is being similarly transformed by writers of technical prose.

I´ve also uploaded the PowerPoint I used to present it, which has an extra grammar digression.

Participles Becoming Prepositions – Some Arcane Information for Editors by Mary Margaret Pringle is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.