transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪksept ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You use except to introduce the only thing or person that a statement does not apply to, or a fact that prevents a statement from being completely true.
I wouldn’t have accepted anything except a job in Europe...
I don’t take any drugs whatsoever, except aspirin for colds...
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Except is also a conjunction.
Freddie would tell me nothing about what he was writing, except that it was to be a Christmas play...
CONJ : oft CONJ that/when/where/if
2.
You use except for to introduce the only thing or person that prevents a statement from being completely true.
He hadn’t eaten a thing except for one forkful of salad...
Everyone was late, except for Richard.
PREP-PHRASE