{"id":16890,"date":"2025-06-11T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=16890"},"modified":"2025-06-11T20:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:58:53","slug":"all-except-her-have-chosen-their-research-topics-for-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/all-except-her-have-chosen-their-research-topics-for-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"All except her have chosen their research topics for next year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All except her have chosen their research topics for next year. she her<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is:<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The correct sentence is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;All except her have chosen their research topics for next year.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation (300 words):<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This sentence may sound strange to some English learners because of the use of \u201cher\u201d instead of \u201cshe.\u201d However, <strong>&#8220;her&#8221;<\/strong> is the correct form here. Let&#8217;s break it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The phrase <strong>&#8220;All except her&#8221;<\/strong> is a prepositional phrase. The word <strong>&#8220;except&#8221;<\/strong> is a preposition, and prepositions are followed by <strong>object pronouns<\/strong> (me, him, her, us, them), <strong>not<\/strong> subject pronouns (I, he, she, we, they).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Correct: Everyone passed the exam <strong>except me<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Incorrect: Everyone passed the exam <strong>except I<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the sentence \u201cAll except her have chosen their research topics,\u201d <strong>&#8220;her&#8221;<\/strong> is the object of the preposition <strong>&#8220;except&#8221;<\/strong>. Therefore, <strong>&#8220;her&#8221;<\/strong> is grammatically correct, even though the main clause uses <strong>&#8220;have&#8221;<\/strong> with the plural subject <strong>&#8220;All&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we mistakenly said, \u201cAll except she have chosen&#8230;,\u201d that would be using a subject pronoun (\u201cshe\u201d) as the object of a preposition, which is grammatically incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This rule applies broadly in English:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cNobody but <strong>him<\/strong> showed up.\u201d (not \u201che\u201d)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cEveryone, including <strong>me<\/strong>, is going.\u201d (not \u201cI\u201d)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cAll except <strong>her<\/strong> were late.\u201d (not \u201cshe\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another tip: you can test which pronoun to use by removing the rest of the sentence and checking the prepositional phrase:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cExcept her\u201d sounds natural.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cExcept she\u201d sounds awkward and wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the sentence \u201cAll except her have chosen their research topics for next year\u201d is both grammatically correct and idiomatic English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All except her have chosen their research topics for next year. she her The correct answer and explanation is: The correct sentence is: &#8220;All except her have chosen their research topics for next year.&#8221; Explanation (300 words): This sentence may sound strange to some English learners because of the use of \u201cher\u201d instead of \u201cshe.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16891,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890\/revisions\/16891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}