In the sentence 'There is absolutely ___ possibilty of failure!', the missing word functions as which part of speech?

• A. Determiner
• B. Adjective
• C. Adverb
• D. Conjunction

Answer: (A)

This is about how quantity words before a noun function. The missing word is no, which acts as a determiner. It comes directly before the noun phrase possibility to indicate zero quantity: there is absolutely no possibility of failure.

absolutely is an adverb intensifying the determiner, not describing the noun itself. If we used an adjective instead (for example, absolute possibility), it would describe the noun’s quality rather than specifying that there is none. A conjunction wouldn’t fit here because it would connect clauses, which isn’t happening in this position.