Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Except for you and I, everyone carried their books in a satchel to

Hello,Vamshi4005 . This has to do with grammar, and the short answer is thatme cannot act as a subject, but it can act as an object. In the sentence at hand, thefor in exceptfor is a preposition, meaning that whatever follows will be the object of a preposition. Thus, except forme is grammatically acceptable, while except forI is not. We see the same tendency at work in the phrase between you andme , even if many native English speakers incorrectly say
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