Directions: Each of the following sentences has a word or phrase underlined. Read the sentences carefully and find which part of speech the underlined word belongs to. Indicate response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
My parents lent me the money. **Otherwise**, I could not have afforded the trip.
- AAdjective
- BAdverb
- CConjunction
- DParticiple
Explanation
Otherwise means if things were different and modifies the whole clause I could not have afforded the trip, expressing the condition under which the result follows. This sentence-linking, condition-expressing role is that of a conjunctive adverb. It does not describe a noun as an adjective would, it is not a verb form as a participle would be, and unlike a true conjunction it stands at the head of a new sentence as an adverbial. The conditional-adverbial function makes it an adverb.