help: the usage of except and excepting

jmbnzhu

GWD17-12:

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

 

Thank you

hardcandy

这句话需要个转折，所以排除ABE.留下CD.根据句子意思，可以看出需要表示的意思是除了在。。。地方，再加上根据词典写的EXCEPTING的用法－通常跟在NOT后，可以肯定是选C.

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except, except for, or excepting: http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/except.html
Often the question of whether to use except or except for is a matter of indifference: We'd all seen the play except [or except for] Joe. Where the exception is closely paired with what it is an exception to, except is more usual: All of us except Joe had seen the play.Except for is used where the connection to what is being excepted is indirect, and is also more common at the beginning of a sentence: Except for that, we were in agreement.Excepting is the correct choice after not: She was the most important person in his life, not excepting his mother.

jmbnzhu

谢谢

AlienX

except跟excepting的區別OG11(purple)上有提過, LZ可以看看...

天蝎座1107

以下是引用AlienX在2008-9-8 5:33:00的发言：
except跟excepting的區別OG11(purple)上有提過, LZ可以看看...

版主，啥区别？我只有黄皮没有紫皮啊

天蝎座1107

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