Detroit was a French military post for its first 75 years, excepting for the minor influence of the few residing soldiers, French language, culture, and cuisine were never particulary prevalent in the city.
A. excepting for
B. except for
C. but except for
D. with the exception of
E. but excepting for
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The two clauses here --
Detroit was a French military post and
French language, culture and cuisine were never particularly prevalent -- cannot be connected by a preposition such as
excepting (in A),
except (in B), or
with (in D). Eliminate A, B and D.
In E,
excepting for is unidiomatic. Eliminate E.
The correct answer is
C.
Excepting generally is used to exclude something or someone from a NEGATIVE statement:
None of the boys, excepting Mark, attended the party. I would be skeptical of an answer choice that includes
excepting.
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