Exceptions

Question 1

We say Except (for) meaning the only thing a statement doesn’t include.

Answer 1

The price of the holiday includes all meals except (for) lunch.
Everyone seemed to be visited except (for) Miss Wood and me.
I had no money to give him except (for) few coins in my pocket.

Question 2

We use EXCEPT before prepositions, TO INFINITIVE, bare infinitives and That Clauses.

Answer 2

I rarely need to go to the city center except to do some shopping.
They look just like the real thing, except that they’re made of plastic.
There is likely to rain everywhere except in Wales.
There is nothing more the doctor can do except keep an eye on him.

Question 3

Except (for) is the contrary of Besides.

Apart from can be used with same meaning of except and besides.

Answer 3

I don’t enjoy watching any sport except cricket.
Besides cricket, I enjoy watching football and basketball.
I don’t enjoy watching any sport apart from cricket.
Apart from cricket, I enjoy watching football and basketball.

Question 4

We can use BUT with similar meaning of except for, with the words no, nobody, nothing.

Answer 4

After the operation he could see nothing but/except/apart from vague shadows.
There was no way out but/except/apart from upwards, towards the light.

Question 5

BUT FOR is used in conditional.
In informal, can use except for.

Answer 5

The country would be self-sufficient in food but for the drought last year.
But for the leg injury last year, he would have been picked for the team by now.
I’d have got there on time except for the taxi being late.

Question 6

We can use Excepted/apart/aside.

Answer 6

It has been, 1984 excepted/apart/aside, the hottest July for the last 100 years.