Accept or Expect?: COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS

Accept or Expect?: COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS

Accept / Except 


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Accept
Accept/ak-sept/ means to accept the situation, what has been said, or an offer. 

Examples: 
- I accept your apology.
- I have accepted your request.
- We have accepted the defeat.
- Did you accept my invitation card?

Related words: admit, welcome, receive, acknowledge, recognise, approve, affirm, etc. 

Except 
Except/ik-sept/ means excluding or without including.

Examples:
- All children have slept except Nina.
- Take everything except my phone.
- All answers are correct except one.

Related words: without, minus, exclude, omit, exempting, apart from, aside from, etc. 

Thus, 'Accept' and 'Except' should be used carefully. 

Emmanuel Kachele

Emmanuel Kachele is a founder and Blogger of KACHELE ONLINE Blog, an educational blog where 'O' Level English - 'OLE', 'A' Level English (ALE) and other related teaching and life skills are shared extensively. This is an online center for all Tanzanian Secondary School English Language students and teachers (Forms I-VI) and all interested English Language learners and teachers worldwide.

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