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Which sentence uses accept and except correctly?*

Everyone accept Matthew drank from the fountain.It was hard to accept the fact that I should start over.They all decided to except the invitation.They except that they must whisper in the library.

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the second one is correct i hope this helped

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The second sentence.

"It was hard to accept the fact that I should start over"

because accept means literally to accept something, take something someone says or gives to you

while except means "everything but this", or "leaving out this"
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