Directions: Choose the correct answer from the options given belo

SOLUTION

The correct answer is "Adverb".

• In the given sentence, ‘After’ is an adverb. Since it is answering the question when they arrived?
• It is an adverb modifying the verb 'arrived'.
• Let us explore the given options:
  • A preposition is a word governing and usually preceding a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause
  • An adverb is a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.
  • An adjective is a word naming an attribute of a noun.
  • A conjunction is a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.
• Hence, the correct answer is option 2.
   

• “Soon after” is an idiom taken together as an adverb of time. "Soon after" modifies the verb, arrived.
• The "soon after" compares the happening to another happening.