A few days ago
How to understand the ‘except’ in the sentence below?
The sentence is:
I still have no clear, definitive answer as to what was causing me to suddenly collapse like I kept doing for so many years, except that I kept collapsing from profound migraines.
Does it mean ‘I’ didn’t keep collapsing from profound migraines as many years as ‘i’ kept collapsing?
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A few days ago
It was the migraines that kept you collapsing for many years. Up to the point you realized that when a migraine hit you that you would collapse from the pain, and a doctor explained it, you had no clue what caused your “mini-blackouts.” There was no other explanation for the collapse EXCEPT the headaches.
(PS:hope that makes sense. It’s 1 a.m. where I live and I’m getting tired. LOL)
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A few days ago
It means that the only clear, definitive answer is “that he kept collapsing from the profound migraines”. Meaning it what is “causing him to collapse”
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A few days ago
“except” here means, u have only one probability which u know but feel there could be other reasons also.
In above sentence, it means..I kept collapsing.
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A few days ago
First off, the punctuation is incorrect. But, reading this, I see it as indecision. You’ve tried to narrow it down, but, this is the only answer you can see.
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