Words at Play : Top 10 Commonly Confused Words, Vol. 2

#4: Accept/Except

Question:

He does nothing accept or except complain?

Answer:

except

How to remember it:

Keep in mind the link between except and exception.

In an example like the one above, except introduces the only thing not referred to by the previous statement – in other words, it introduces an exception.

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