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# except

«except» in Mova's school dictionary: **not including; leaving out** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#m1)

2) Except that means but, apart from the fact that: «I'd come, except that I'm ill». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#x1)
- She ate all the sweets except 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#x2)
- Every day except Sunday he runs 3 km. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#x3)
- All the boxes except one are full. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#x4)
- The shop is open every day except Monday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#x5)
- Everyone came to the party except Ali, who was ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#x6)
- I like all fruits except bananas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#x7)
- The room was silent except for the ticking clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#x8)
- All children, except one, grow up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/0/)
- [Maize now grows on every continent except Antarctica, and much of it feeds farm animals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/17/)
- [In five minutes the hall is empty except for about a dozen weasels lying on the floor, whom Mole handcuffs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/6/)
- [The old rhyme says «i before e except after c».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/0/)
- [«i before e except after c» works mainly for the /ee/ sound: believe, field, receive, ceiling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «except» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/except/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.