Which sentence uses accept/except correctly?

• A. She accepted the invitation.
• B. She excepted the invitation.
• C. She accepted the invitation, except it was late.
• D. She except the invitation.

Answer: (A)

Accept means to receive or agree to something, while except means excluding or leaving out. In a simple past statement about what she did with the invitation, the verb should be the past tense form of accept: accepted. So the sentence that uses accepted the invitation correctly conveys that she received or agreed to the invitation in the past. The other options misapply the word: excepted would change the meaning to exclude the invitation, which doesn’t fit here; except as a word in that position isn’t the correct verb form; and using except as a standalone verb isn’t correct grammar.