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- Greek
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- Greece
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- Greece
These are two sentences I found on Longman.
You’ll have to go now, otherwise you’ll miss your bus.
We were delayed at the airport. Otherwise we would have been here by lunch time.
I noticed that in the first sentence, 'otherwise' is preceded by a comma. In the second sentence, on the other hand, it is preceded by a fullstop. Something else I noticed is that in the second sentence, 'otherwise' is not followed by a comma, although I have a feeling it should. Can someone explain?
You’ll have to go now, otherwise you’ll miss your bus.
We were delayed at the airport. Otherwise we would have been here by lunch time.
I noticed that in the first sentence, 'otherwise' is preceded by a comma. In the second sentence, on the other hand, it is preceded by a fullstop. Something else I noticed is that in the second sentence, 'otherwise' is not followed by a comma, although I have a feeling it should. Can someone explain?