[問題] GWD 17-2

[FionaV]

Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, excepting for the domains of administration and teaching,
the English language was never really spoken on the island.

A. excepting for
B. except in
C. but except in
D. but excepting for
E. with the exception of

Ans: C

這題我是用刪去法做的
1. 先刪AD 因為"excepting for"怪怪的 有這種用法嗎?
2. 刪E "with the exception of"的用法好像有點wordy
3. 剩BC 後來選B 但是答案是C

我不選C的原因是多了一個but 因為在說"除了...之外"不是都直接用"except"嗎? 多了一個but好像有點多餘...

請各位大大為我解答!

[superruby]

前後的文意有轉折,加but比較好
關於妳的問題
but-連接詞
except -當動詞
這樣好像沒有衝突了

繼續討論...

[FiscJanet]

Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, excepting for the domains of administration and teaching,
the English language was never really spoken on the island.

A. excepting for
B. except in
C. but except in
D. but excepting for
E. with the exception of

Ans: C

這題我是用刪去法做的
1. 先刪AD 因為"excepting for"怪怪的 有這種用法嗎?
2. 刪E "with the exception of"的用法好像有點wordy
3. 剩BC 後來選B 但是答案是C

我不選C的原因是多了一個but 因為在說"除了...之外"不是都直接用"except"嗎? 多了一個but好像有點多餘...


請各位大大為我解答!

第11版OG上有一題考到except的用法(不確定第10版有沒有)
那題except應該是當介詞用，我後來查過字典except可以當介詞、連接詞及動詞用，但是本題我認為還是當介詞用，若是沒有but的話，第一句話跟最後一句話中間沒有連接詞，就會變成流水句了。
只是總覺得這樣的句型沒看過，請哪位高手幫忙解說！

這是我的想法，我修辭還蠻弱的...請指正！

[fuzzyball]

The first part of the sentence, Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years (this implies that English is the spoken language in Mauritius).

But the last part of the sentence states that English was never really spoken on the island. So there needs to be a transition of a contrast between the first and the last.

But except for things like admin and teaching <-- successfully establishes the contrast between the first and the last part of the sentence.

hope that helps.

[giraffe]

ans. C "but except in"
but -> conj.
except -> prep.

otherwise, this sentence will have two verbs "was" without any conj.

[franksklu]

excepting 是古字,已被取消了!!!
以後只要看到 except 加ing, 永遠不選

[Jen-Cheng]

真的嗎?請問一下從那裡得知的?

[ergh]

看到永遠不選的字樣，當然是最熟悉的莫伯伯啦～～

[fsab00037748]

有同學可以補充一下關於
except in
except for
except
這三個的用法有何不同嗎? (並非指只有在這題而已喔)

謝謝啦

[kaori110]

有同學可以補充一下關於
except in
except for
except
這三個的用法有何不同嗎? (並非指只有在這題而已喔)

謝謝啦

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我也想知道

[sweetymanman]

except 的用法，form LONGMAN
http://www.ldoceonline.com/

except
1 used to introduce the only person, thing, action, fact, or situation about which a statement is not true:
ex:The office is open every day except Sundays.
ex:You can have any of the cakes except this one.

except for
ex:Everyone went except for Scott and Dan.
ex:She felt fine except for being a little tired.

except (that)
ex:Clarissa could think of nothing to say except that she was so sorry.

except in/by/to etc
ex:Staff are not permitted to make personal phone calls except in an emergency.

except when/where/if
ex:Benson kept the studio locked except when he was working there.

except do something
ex:She had nothing to do except spend money.

except to do something
ex:He wouldn't talk about work, except to say that he was busy.

2 used to give the reason why something was not done or did not happen

except (that)
ex:Liz would have run, except that she didn't want to appear to be in a hurry.

3 spoken used to mention a fact that makes what you have just said seem less true

except (that)
ex:I have earrings just like those, except they're blue

ex:A date book would make a great gift, except that a lot of people already have one.


except, besides, apart from, unless
except means 'not including' or 'but not'
• They invited everyone except Julie.
besides means 'in addition to'
• Besides Italy (NOT except Italy), I would like to visit France and Spain.
apart from can be used with either meaning
• I ate everything apart from (OR except) the soup.
• What do you like doing apart from (OR besides) swimming?
except is not used to introduce another clause. Use unless or except if, except when, except while, except that
• We won't go unless you really want to (NOT except you really want to).
• I cycle to work, except when it rains (NOT except it rains).
In spoken English, people sometimes leave out 'that'
• The play went well, except (that) a few people forgot their lines.