Arabic: An Essential Grammar

(2) All the students slept in the country house except my sister who

returned to the city.

(3) All the soldiers went to the border except the commander and one

soldier who were ill.

(4) All the members of the Security Council went out of the hall except one

new member.

(5) In the final exam I did not know the answers to any of the questions

except one.

(6) All the members attended the meeting except the military expert and

one member.

(7) All the audience went out of the hall except the chairman of the meeting

and the newspaper correspondents.

(8) My brother put out all the lights in the house except the light in the

bathroom.

(9) I will not buy anything except roses, the newspaper and a magazine.

(10) The lecturer talked to an army division about the conflict between the

two countries but he refused to answer all the questions.

(11) In the garden I planted a variety of flowers and trees but no (lit. except)

olive trees.

(12) The members who attended the meeting discussed the crisis in the

Middle East, but they didn’t agree on a single opinion.

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