We can also use an adverbial clause beginning with the conjunction except (that): We can also use an adverbial clause beginning with the conjunction except (that):
Otherwise and else are adverbs of exception:
- You have a good tan, but otherwise (= ‘apart from that’) you don’t look like a man fresh back from sunny Italy.
- I noticed that the attic door had been forced open but everything else (=‘apart from that’) seemed to be intact.
In this sense, otherwise occurs as a sentence adverb, whereas else occurs as a modifier following a pronoun.
The adverb even expresses the negation of exception (‘not excepting’) normally with an effect of surprise and emphasis
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