PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”

[Anonymous]

I highly recommend everyone read Dreyer's English. Although I am still a stickler for grammar, I no longer find myself aggrieved by others' mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, OP. Me and my spouse will make sure to remind us of that.

[Anonymous]

Actually you are wrong.

There are 3 grammatically acceptable ways to say it.

She was graduated from college.
She graduated from college
She graduated college.

While #1 is originally grammatically correct since "graduated" was a transitive verb meaning to bestow a degree.
But since language is evolving (maybe you are not) it eventually came to mean to receive a degree, intransitive. Though most grammarians disagreed with the move from transitive to intransitive evolution won that battle.
Finally, graduated is now both transitive and intransitive so it does not have to "take an object".

Hence both are correct.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graduate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually you are wrong.

There are 3 grammatically acceptable ways to say it.

She was graduated from college.
She graduated from college
She graduated college.

While #1 is originally grammatically correct since "graduated" was a transitive verb meaning to bestow a degree.
But since language is evolving (maybe you are not) it eventually came to mean to receive a degree, intransitive. Though most grammarians disagreed with the move from transitive to intransitive evolution won that battle.
Finally, graduated is now both transitive and intransitive so it does not have to "take an object".

Hence both are correct.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graduate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drives me crazy you don’t “graduate college” you graduate from college!

PSA criticizing dialectical differences in language patterns doesn't make you look smart, it makes you look ignorant and arrogant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drives me crazy you don’t “graduate college” you graduate from college!

PSA criticizing dialectical differences in language patterns doesn't make you look smart, it makes you look ignorant and arrogant.

Like going to university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drives me crazy you don’t “graduate college” you graduate from college!

jesus are you kidding me! this is what you're worried about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drives me crazy you don’t “graduate college” you graduate from college!

It annoys me too, but I came from a place where people speak English instead of American English so I guess I just saw it as a typical American thing and tried to get used to it.

"I got bit" is another thing that annoys me, although at least that seems more connected with SES and is therefore easier to avoid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually you are wrong.

There are 3 grammatically acceptable ways to say it.

She was graduated from college.
She graduated from college
She graduated college.

While #1 is originally grammatically correct since "graduated" was a transitive verb meaning to bestow a degree.
But since language is evolving (maybe you are not) it eventually came to mean to receive a degree, intransitive. Though most grammarians disagreed with the move from transitive to intransitive evolution won that battle.
Finally, graduated is now both transitive and intransitive so it does not have to "take an object".

Hence both are correct.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graduate

Original PP, I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[Anonymous]

Still sounds dumb. But glad we axed you.

[Anonymous]

OP -- you should meet my DH. This is a HUGE pet peeve for him!

[Anonymous]

Is this sort of like “she peed her pants”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Irregardless, you probably understand their short-hand explanation.

Is irregardless even a word? Why not just say regardless?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Irregardless, you probably understand their short-hand explanation.

Well, understanding is not the measure of grammar. So many educated people say this! If I said “I gots to be going to school”, I’d know what you meant, but it would be horrible grammar.

PP what you were doing was completely obvious, I thought.

[Anonymous]

OP:

According to the Grammar Girl it took until 1963 for "was graduated from" to be replaced by "graduated from". I've thought perhaps it comes from people pretending to be sort of British (an awful lot of "pressers" and "bespoke" and "spot on" lately).

Maybe if we over-correct by using the pre-1963 usage we can steer the country back to a middle course.