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Anonymous  +  235946 Wed, 14 Jun 06 10:36 AM

I know the difference between besides and except, but could you please enlighten me on these two?

thank you very much
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Philip  +  236058 Wed, 14 Jun 06 04:55 PM
 Anonymous wrote:

I know the difference between besides and except, but could you please enlighten me on these two?

thank you very much

I would need to think long and hard to find any significant difference in meaning.  Context may be a different story.  Let's see if someone else has some examples.
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Anonymous, 2 yr 207 days ago
Besides can be a synonym for " in addition to" or " as well as". Essentially it signifies " + "
"Except" and "except for" (not before a preposition or infinitive) work like "save for", i.e.  that the following will be an exception, essentially a " - "
Confusingly, both can be substituted by "apart from".



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