except
part of speech
preposition, conjunction (except); verb (except — rare, formal)
meaning for a pupil
1) Except means not including; leaving out. «Everyone except Tom went» means Tom did not go. tree →
2) Except that means but, apart from the fact that: «I'd come, except that I'm ill». tree →
sense in the lessons
takes one part out of a group: «all except 3» means the group minus 3; in everyday life: «open every day except Sunday», «all except one»; in grammar: «except» leaves out, «accept» means to take what is offered; phrases: «except for», «except that», «everyone except»
examples
- All except 4 of the 30 children went on the trip. tree →
- She ate all the sweets except 5. tree →
- Every day except Sunday he runs 3 km. tree →
- All the boxes except one are full. tree →
- The shop is open every day except Monday. tree →
- Everyone came to the party except Ali, who was ill. tree →
- I like all fruits except bananas. tree →
- The room was silent except for the ticking clock. tree →
- All children, except one, grow up. tree →
note
Points to taking away: «all except n» = total − n. Trap: «all except 5 left» means 5 stayed, so the answer may be 5, not total − 5; read what is asked. Trap: «every day except Sunday» is 6 days a week. Do not confuse «except» (leave out) with «accept» (take, agree).
In the corpora
- There are about 250 kinds of owl, and they live on every continent except Antarctica.
- Maize now grows on every continent except Antarctica, and much of it feeds farm animals.
- In five minutes the hall is empty except for about a dozen weasels lying on the floor, whom Mole handcuffs.
- The old rhyme says «i before e except after c».
- «i before e except after c» works mainly for the /ee/ sound: believe, field, receive, ceiling.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «except» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.