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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 31 Jan 2020, 01:12
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party.

A. Except for you and I, everyone brought
B. With exception of you and I, everyone brought
C. Except for you and I, everyone had brought
D. Except for you and me, everyone brought
E. Except for you and me, everyone had brought
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 31 Jan 2020, 06:43
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D is the right answer.

Split #1: for you and I vs for you and me vs of you and I
for and of are both prepositions and the object pronoun rather than the subject pronoun is required. Therefore, for/of you and me is correct, since me is the object pronoun while I is a subject pronoun. We can eliminate A, B, and C.

Split #2: brought vs had brought
There is no justification for the use of the past perfect tense. An event that occurred in the past is being reported in the sentence. The simple past tense is sufficient to appropriately report this event. Based on this, E can be eliminated and D is left as the right answer.

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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 31 Jan 2020, 01:29
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Answer is option D : Except for you and me, everyone brought

A. Except for you and I, everyone brought
B. With the exception of you and I, everyone brought
C. Except for you and I, everyone had brought
D. Except for you and me, everyone brought - Correct
E. Except for you and me, everyone had brought
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 31 Jan 2020, 04:23
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party.

A. Except for you and I, everyone brought -> We need object noun me
B. With exception of you and I, everyone brought -> We need object noun me
C. Except for you and I, everyone had brought -> We need object noun me
D. Except for you and me, everyone brought -> Correct
E. Except for you and me, everyone had brought -> Past perfect had is not required

We need object as "You and me", not subject "I" -> Everyone brought a present except for you and me. --> D
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 31 Jan 2020, 06:55
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IMO D
you and me are objects.
I shouldnt be used instead of me.

Option E is wrong because it has "had" in the sentence which is incorrect.

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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 31 Jan 2020, 09:54
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party.

A. Except for you and I, everyone brought
B. With exception of you and I, everyone brought
C. Except for you and I, everyone had brought
D. Except for you and me, everyone brought
E. Except for you and me, everyone had brought

C and E are wrong for using past perfect tense. B is again wrong for A and D are better. Between A and D, A is correct since 'you and I' is subject here.

IMO Answer A.
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 31 Jan 2020, 10:04
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party.

A. Except for you and I, everyone brought
B. With exception of you and I, everyone brought
C. Except for you and I, everyone had brought
D. Except for you and me, everyone brought
E. Except for you and me, everyone had brought


=> Choice D
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 01 Feb 2020, 08:44
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Except is a preposition that needs an object. The choices A, B, and C, which use the subject pronoun - I- are wrong. Between D and E, the use of past perfect had brought is wrong in E. D is the choice
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 02 Feb 2020, 05:23
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After "except for", subjective form of Noun/Pronoun comes and no need to change the tense structure.
Answer:D
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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 07 Feb 2020, 03:35
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The confusion here is between subject pronoun (I) and object pronoun (me).

We need to know that the right pronoun here is the object pronoun. In this sentence, 'everyone' is the subject and 'expect' needs object pronouns. There is no need to use ‘had brought’ in this sentence. Thus, D is the right answer.

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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 07 Jul 2021, 07:20
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This question was very easy for me.
After preposition an objective form of pronoun is must. That's why option A,B & C is eliminated.
Now remain options D & E. Here had shouldn’t come according to sequence of tense so option E also eliminated . So option D is the right answer.

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Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party. 10 Jul 2021, 12:35
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Hi GMATNinja

My concepts on You and I vs You and Me are not clear.
Do you have any article or youTube video where this concept is covered.

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