[Vocabulary] Using Except and Except For in a sentence.

[Nicole Huang]

I am a native speaker but now I attend a normal school in Taiwan.
We have lessons created in dialogues, and we are required to memorize the sentences in the lesson dialogue.
Today we had a test and I forgot the correct sentence that came with the dialogue, so I randomly translated it from Mandarin to English.

I wrote:
Everything is fine except for your finger.

The sentence in the dialogue:
Everything is fine except your finger.

I asked the teacher if it was fine adding "for", but he said he didn't think it was appropriate.
I was confused because I remember seeing many of "except for"s used in books.

Please help ><

 

[bhaisahab]

I am a native speaker but now I attend a normal school in Taiwan.
We have lessons created in dialogues, and we are required to memorize the sentences in the lesson dialogue.
Today we had a test and I forgot the correct sentence that came with the dialogue, so I randomly translated it from Mandarin to English.

I wrote:
Everything is fine except for your finger.

The sentence in the dialogue:
Everything is fine except your finger.

I asked the teacher if it was fine adding "for", but he said he didn't think it was appropriate.
I was confused because I remember seeing many of "except for"s used in books.

Please help ><

It's fine with or without "for".

 

[5jj]

'Except for' is natural before noun phrases.

 

[Nicole Huang]

Thank you both for the help

 

[konungursvia]

'Except for' is natural before noun phrases.

I find it sounds redundant unless the verb structure accepts that preposition (for).