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- The house was quiet ........................................ the noise of Mary typing.
Question 1:
The house was quiet ........................................ the noise of Mary typing. A. except
B. except for
Feedback 'Except' and 'except for' are used to introduce exceptions to generalizations. Except is not possible here. It can be used without 'for' only after generalizing words like all, every, no, everything, anybody, nowhere, whole etc.
C. Either could be used here
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